
Island of Love
53.00%|June 12, 1963|Comedy
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
Featured Crew
David R. Schwartz
Writer
Leo Katcher
Story
Morton DaCosta
Director
Cast

Robert Preston
Steve Blair

Tony Randall
Paul Ferris

Giorgia Moll
Elena Harakas

Walter Matthau
Tony Dallas

Betty Bruce
Cha Cha Miller