I Escaped from Devil's Island
He's the devil they named the island for!
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A gritty 1970s prison-escape thriller set in a brutal colonial penal colony, driven by survival desperation and the camaraderie of men plotting against an oppressive system.
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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