The Island Monster

{{Infobox film | name =The Island Monster | image = The Island Monster.jpg | caption = | director = Roberto Bianchi Montero | producer = Fortunato Misiano | writer = Roberto Bianchi Montero <br> Carlo Lombardo <br> Alberto Vecchietti | starring = Boris Karloff <br> Franca Marzi <br> Germana Paolieri | music = Carlo Innocenzi | cinematography = Augusto Tiezzi | editing = Jolanda Benvenuti | studio = Romana Film | distributor = Siden Film | released = {{Film date|1954|01|02|df=yes}} | runtime = 87 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian }} '''''The Island Monster''''' ({{langx|it|Il mostro dell'isola|translation=The Monster of the Island}}) is a 1954 Italian thriller film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi and Germana Paolieri.<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref><ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti|date=2010 |publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=978-8860736260}}</ref> It was made at Cinecitta Studios with location shooting taking place on the island of Ischia.

== Plot == Don Gaetano, an apparently respectable man but the leader of a gang of traffickers, kidnaps a little girl to force a policeman not to investigate; the latter, aided by a woman of the gang, frees the child and arrests the criminals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=IL MOSTRO DELL'ISOLA - Film (1953) |url=https://www.comingsoon.it/film/il-mostro-dell-isola/36099/scheda/ |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=ComingSoon.it |language=it}}</ref>

== Cast == *Boris Karloff as Don Gaetano * Franca Marzi as Gloria D'Auro * Renato Vicario as Ten. Mario Andreani * Patrizia Remiddi as Fiorella Andreani * Jole Fierro as Giulia * Carlo Duse as Foster * Germana Paolieri as Adalgisa * Giuseppe Chinnici as Maresciallo Antonio Carcani * Giulio Battiferri as Il rapitore * Domenico De Nimmo as Uomo di Pozzuoli * Clara Gamberini as La contessa * Salvatore Scibetta as Col. Della Finanza

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Barry Atkinson. ''Atomic Age Cinema: The Offbeat, the Classic and the Obscure''. Midnight Marquee, 2013. * Lawrence McCallum. ''Italian Horror Films of the 1960s: A Critical Catalog of 62 Chillers''. McFarland & Company, 1998.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0046097}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Island Monster}} Category:1954 films Category:1954 thriller films Category:Italian thriller films Category:Films directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero Category:Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Category:1954 Italian-language films Category:Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:1954 Italian films Category:Films scored by Carlo Innocenzi