During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.
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- TriviaThe line "Is your journey really necessary?" was used on posters in the UK during wartime to encourage people to conserve fuel. It would have been familiar to the audiences who first saw this film in 1944.
- GoofsWhen Arthur sits on the table collapsing it in the marketplace, the position of the table in relation to Arthur and the girls behind changes between shots.
- SoundtracksI'M A WOLF ON MY MOTHER'S SIDE
(uncredited)
Written by Val Guest and Manning Sherwin
Sung by Arthur Askey
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Ridiculous, but wonderfully entertaining
The team from Miss London Ltd are back - Arthur Askey as the "four foot nothing" hero, Anne Shelton as the saucy seductress, Peter Graves as the token handsome guy, and Jean Kent as the sweet little thing, with Max Bacon and Ronald Shiner bringing up the rear.
Jean, Anne, and about 2000 other girls are the residents of "Paradise Island", a place which seems to worship bees, to the point of acting like them - women are queens, men are drones. And after marriage, the man is sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, as their tradition goes, either by jumping off a cliff, or sailing off into the ice. So when four pilots parachute out of their dying plane and land on this island, they're immediately in for it. Askey is immediately nabbed by Shelton - for the rest of the film her entourage follows him around with his own special rickshaw. But he's after Kent, who is herself after Graves. The men find out about the death tradition, and are anxious to flee the island, until Shelton marries Askey before he realises it (drinking wine together signifies the betrothal) and suddenly it's a matter of life or death that he escapes!
Movie starts off somewhat dodgy, leaving you thinking "what on EARTH is going on??" but stay with it, it's hilarious, and well worth seeing! There's plenty of songs, and more Bob Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour 'road' references than you can poke a stick at.
Jean, Anne, and about 2000 other girls are the residents of "Paradise Island", a place which seems to worship bees, to the point of acting like them - women are queens, men are drones. And after marriage, the man is sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, as their tradition goes, either by jumping off a cliff, or sailing off into the ice. So when four pilots parachute out of their dying plane and land on this island, they're immediately in for it. Askey is immediately nabbed by Shelton - for the rest of the film her entourage follows him around with his own special rickshaw. But he's after Kent, who is herself after Graves. The men find out about the death tradition, and are anxious to flee the island, until Shelton marries Askey before he realises it (drinking wine together signifies the betrothal) and suddenly it's a matter of life or death that he escapes!
Movie starts off somewhat dodgy, leaving you thinking "what on EARTH is going on??" but stay with it, it's hilarious, and well worth seeing! There's plenty of songs, and more Bob Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour 'road' references than you can poke a stick at.
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- calvertfan
- Apr 14, 2002
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- Skandal i paradiset
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- Gainsborough Studios, Islington, London, England, UK(studio: made at The Gainsborough Studios, London)
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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