Along their escape route, they encounter submissive native women and a colony of lepers.

[4] Martin Scorsese says that Roger Corman offered him the chance to direct the film following Boxcar Bertha.

[6] He says he had been talked out of doing exploitation films by his friend and colleague John Cassavetes who urged Scorsese to make something more personal.

[1] Quentin Tarantino was an admirer of the film with a script that is "both entertaining and rather complex" and lead characters that "are refreshingly complicated and three dimensional" and a fresh "exploration of the societal dynamics of the community that the island prisoners exist in" in particular The Fancy Boys who "aren’t presented the way the queer population is usually depicted in novels about Alcatraz or other prison-set seventies adventures... [they] hold their own respected status inside of the island convict community without degradation.

"[10] Shout Factory released I Escaped from Devil's Island on DVD and Blu-ray on July 15, 2014.