Poor Roger Corman effort - shoddily done, without wit or imagination, despite Hawaiian locales. Two brothers, fleeing the police, wind up in on one of those women-only islands that populated cinema screens in the 1950s. One of the brothers (the nice one) falls for a local girl; the ruler of the women islanders is opposed (just like witchdoctors in Africa movies). There are some pretty girls and colour but its one of those movies that you watch and you discern movement but you don't really follow what's going in. It was shot at the same time as Thunder Over Hawaii but lacks any of that film's bright touches; although financed independently, AIP agreed to pick it up for distribution.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Movie review - Corman #12 - "She Gods of Shark Reef" (1958) *
Poor Roger Corman effort - shoddily done, without wit or imagination, despite Hawaiian locales. Two brothers, fleeing the police, wind up in on one of those women-only islands that populated cinema screens in the 1950s. One of the brothers (the nice one) falls for a local girl; the ruler of the women islanders is opposed (just like witchdoctors in Africa movies). There are some pretty girls and colour but its one of those movies that you watch and you discern movement but you don't really follow what's going in. It was shot at the same time as Thunder Over Hawaii but lacks any of that film's bright touches; although financed independently, AIP agreed to pick it up for distribution.
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