Fever Mounts at El Pao

After a Caribbean despot's murder, two men compete for his widow Ines on Ojeda, a prison island. When a hardliner takes power and targets his rival, bureaucrat Vazquez seeks support from locals and inmates to remove him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao is a 1959 drama movie directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jean Servais, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, María Félix. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.8/10 from 1,476 votes and runs 1h 37m.