Flame of the Island is a 1956 drama film about a Rosalind Dee Yvonne De Carlo

Yvonne De Carlo

Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Danced ; Anna in Criss Cross ; Sephora the...

 a café singer who buys into a casino, encountering multiple men who quickly fall in love with her and her attempt to sort through these various personalities to find true love and bring her happiness.

Plot

Flame of the Islands focuses on Rosalind Dee (Ms. DeCarlo), She is a cafe singer striving to enter High Society. Rosalind stumbles upon a large amount of money by lucky means. Rosalind forms a partnership with gambling-club owners Wade Evans Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".-Life and career:...

 and Cyril Mace Kurt Kasznar

Kurt Kasznar

-Early life:Kasznar was born in Vienna, Austria as Kurt Servischer. His father left when Kurt was very young, his mother married a Hungarian restaurateur named Ferdinand Kasznar, and Kurt assumed his surname. He emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s for The Eternal Road in which he...

, building the establishment into a gathering place for the Elite. Along the way, she attempts to rekindle a romance with randy playboy Doug Duryea Howard Duff

Howard Duff

Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team...

, but she is soon lured in by Rev. Kelly Rand James Arness

James Arness

James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...

 who comes to save Rosalind from her troubles.

Cast

• Yvonne De Carlo
  Yvonne De Carlo
  Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Danced ; Anna in Criss Cross ; Sephora the...
  
   - Rosalind Dee
• Howard Duff
  Howard Duff
  Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team...
  
   - Doug Duryea
• Zachary Scott
  Zachary Scott
  Zachary Scott was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".-Life and career:...
  
   - Wade Evans
• Kurt Kasznar
  Kurt Kasznar
  -Early life:Kasznar was born in Vienna, Austria as Kurt Servischer. His father left when Kurt was very young, his mother married a Hungarian restaurateur named Ferdinand Kasznar, and Kurt assumed his surname. He emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s for The Eternal Road in which he...
  
   - Cyril Mace
• Barbara O'Neil
  Barbara O'Neil
  -Early life and career:Barbara O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her acting career in summer stock. In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee , and Joshua Logan, the three directors of the University Players, a three-year old summer stock company at West Falmouth on Cape...
  
   - Mrs. Duryea
• James Arness
  James Arness
  James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...
  
  - Rev. Kelly Rand

Production

The film was shot on location in the Bahamas with a small budget.