Search results
The film takes place during World War II, and stars John C. Holmes as Joe Murrey, a shipwrecked sailor who comes to the rescue of two American nurses who are being held captive by a Nazi officer and his three assistants on an island in the South Pacific.
The film is an international co-production of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.
Prisoner of Paradise: Directed by Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender. With Ian Holm, Robert Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel. Documentary about Holocaust victim Kurt Gerron.
Prisoner of Paradise (1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Dec 12, 2003 · Prisoner of Paradise Reviews - Metacritic. Summary The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star who was captured and sent to a concentration camp, where he was ordered to write and direct a pro-Nazi propaganda film.
Prisoner of Paradise. 1980. Directed by Bob Chinn, Gail Palmer. Kidnapped for bizarre sex rites… on a sun-drenched island of SIN! An American G.I. gets marooned on a tropical island after his ship is bombed. There he discovers a small Nazi outpost which has kidnapped a beautiful American nurse.
A shipwrecked World War II sailor comes to the rescue of two American nurses held in the clutches of a twisted Nazi officer and his three female assistants on a deserted South Pacific island.
An American G.I. gets marooned on a tropical island after his ship is bombed. There he discovers a small Nazi outpost which has kidnapped a beautiful American nurse.
During World War 2 in a south pacific island near the Philippines, two American army nurses, Carol and Gloria, are being held captive in a Nazi camp. The base is ran by Hans von Shlemel and his two assistants, Ilsa and Greta.
Gerron is the subject of three documentary films, Prisoner of Paradise (PBS), Kurt Gerrons Karussell, and Tracks to Terezín, which features Holocaust survivor Herbert Thomas Mandl talking about Kurt Gerron as the director of the film Theresienstadt.
