Sandwiched between 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Some Like It Hot' comes this early cross-dressing drama in which shipwrecked hunks Bill Cord and Don Durant spend most the film wearing abbreviated versions of the local girls' sarong skirts: "These will replace your trousers, sir. This is an island of women, we have nothing else."
This reasonably engaging Pathecolor Corman quickie resembles one of those 'Star Trek' episodes in which Captain Kirk finds himself in an idyllic primitive paradise, sheds his shirt and drapes himself in a comely big-haired local maiden. Normally Kirk would end up having to literally fight off a jealous equally scantily-clad male rival; but this island paradise being populated exclusively by females, the opposition instead comes from the sternly watchful (with good reason) Queen Pua, played by Jeanne Gerson, who gives easily the best performance, and supplies the otherwise anodyne proceedings with a tasty sprinkling of vinegar.
Corman himself retains fond memories of the two week holiday with pay in Hawaii this film provided, and sixty - yes sixty! - years later it retains a stupid charm, despite sadly existing only in rubbish public domain prints.
This reasonably engaging Pathecolor Corman quickie resembles one of those 'Star Trek' episodes in which Captain Kirk finds himself in an idyllic primitive paradise, sheds his shirt and drapes himself in a comely big-haired local maiden. Normally Kirk would end up having to literally fight off a jealous equally scantily-clad male rival; but this island paradise being populated exclusively by females, the opposition instead comes from the sternly watchful (with good reason) Queen Pua, played by Jeanne Gerson, who gives easily the best performance, and supplies the otherwise anodyne proceedings with a tasty sprinkling of vinegar.
Corman himself retains fond memories of the two week holiday with pay in Hawaii this film provided, and sixty - yes sixty! - years later it retains a stupid charm, despite sadly existing only in rubbish public domain prints.