Flitterwochen in der Hölle (1960)

Aboard a Super Constellation flying from Mexico to Caracas are all kinds of passengers, including the hardened criminal Mario Bertelli, who is being transferred to a Venezuelan penitentiary and is presumably awaiting execution there. A stroke of luck in the midst of misfortune for Bertelli: during the turbulent flight, the plane goes into a spin and makes a perfect crash landing on a tropical island far from anywhere. The captain and several passengers are killed, among them the industrialist Bert Frank, the much older husband of his fellow passenger Ellen. After settling on the remote island with the surviving food supplies, Bertelli—who has also, fortunately for him, got rid of his guard—shows everyone who is boss in this paradise. He orders the survivors around and, revolver in hand, quickly begins establishing a reign of terror. He soon begins a passionate affair with Martine Duval, a seductive blonde siren and a dancer who is as lascivious as she is buxom. Martine’s portable radio survived the crash, but her island lover has no interest in using it to call for help. Instead, Bertelli begins reducing the group of survivors with his firearm. But Martine soon proves to be a worthy adversary. What nobody knows is that another passenger has survived: the lawyer Henry Boone, who is thoroughly unscrupulous, having a murder on his conscience. And this man is every bit Bertelli’s equal in determination and ruthlessness. In the end, the police take Boone, whom Bertelli has exposed, into custody.