Hell's Island vs The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit has the higher audience score (6.3/10 against 5.5/10 for Hell's Island). Hell's Island is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 2h 10m. Hell's Island is the older of the two (1955 against 2005). Both are adventure, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hell's Island posterHell's Island1955 VS The Turkish Gambit posterThe Turkish Gambit2005
Hell's IslandThe Turkish Gambit
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 6.3/10
Year19552005
Length1h 24m2h 10m
GenresAdventure, Drama, MysteryAction, Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country––
DirectorPhil KarlsonDzhanik Fayziev
Main castEduardo Noriega, Mary Murphy, Argentina Brunetti, John Payne, Francis L. SullivanVladimir Ilin, Velimir Velev, Gosha Kutsenko, Aleksey Guskov, Aleksandr Baluev

Synopsis

Hell's Island

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

The Turkish Gambit

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is…

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