Where we dump our human garbage.

Men and Women Condemned to Devil's Island, U.S.A....Where Living is Worse Than Dying!

No one here gets out alive.


After female prisoners arrive at an island prison full of male convicts, they are brutalized and fight back in an attempt to set up a more democratic system. This exploitative drama includes performances of Tom Selleck and Roger E. Mosley of television's Magnum P.I.


Rothman later said that that she was asked to have a rape scene in the film but could not bring herself to shoot it. "I would not want to be responsible in any way for showing how it could be done," said Rothman.[2]
The film was originally more violent but scenes had to be cut out. Rothman was uncomfortable with the violence that she did show. "I was unhappy with the movie and still continue to feel so," she said in 1981.[3]
Film critic Roger Ebert rates Terminal Island with one star out of four, dismissing it as "the kind of movie that can almost be reviewed by watching the trailer

Release Date: June 1973

Distrib: Dimension Pictures