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Fiend of Dope Island

USA 1961
produced by
J. Harold Odell for Essanjay Films
directed by Nate Watt
starring Bruce Bennett (= Herman Brix), Robert Bray, Tania Velia, Ralph A.Rodriguez, Miguel Ángel Álvarez, Edmundo Rivery Álvarez, Ruth Fernández, Tito Enriquéz, Molly Odell, Eddie Ortiz, Yvonne Peck, Amos Rivera, Milton Steifel, Russel Torres
story by Nate Watt, screenplay by Mark Carabel, Bruce Bennett (= Herman Brix)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Charlie (Bruce Bennett) is ruling a Caribbean island with an iron hand and with the help of his whip he frequently uses on the natives and even his associates. For Charlie is using the island as headquarters for his smuggling operations, mainly smuggling dope but also arms. His main employees are the doctor, an old alcoholic who has fallen from grace in the US, and David (Robert Bray), a honest man who says he has come here for woman troubles - but in the end he will of course turn out to be an undercover FBI agent.

One day, Glory (Tania Velia) comes to the island, having been hired by Charlie as an (exotic) dancer, but while she soon realizes what a dump the island is, she has also realized there is no easy way out and she has to keep Charlie at arm's length, even if he desperately tries to get into her pants. But she makes friends with the natives, who soon treat her as some kind of saint, and with David of course, because, hey, a film like this needs a love story.

Everybody on the island lives in fear of Charlie, but that changes when Charlie tries to rape Glory and she is only just saved by David. Then everybody on the island decides tht is the best to keep Charlie under siege in his house/cantina and sit it out while David blows up his arms depot and destroys his drugrunning operation ... but eventually, Charlie gets away and dukes it out with David - and he seems to be defeating David too, until native boy Naru (Ralph A.Rodriguez), who has been treated especially mean by Charlie, grabs Charlie's whip and makes him pay ...

David and company want to send Charlie off the island on the next ship, but unfortunately the next ship is that of Captain Fred (Miguel Ángel Álvarez), and he is one of Charlie's allies. It all ends in a big fight at the end of which Charlie is eaten by sharks and Fred and his men hightail it on their ship ... right into the arms of the coast guard.

And David and Glory ?

They stay on the island to you-know-what ...

 

The film is prety much what the title already suggests: a cheap piece of sensationalistic exploitation cinema - but as that of course, Fiend of Dope Island does remarkably well, it's one of these B-movie wonders that you know are pulpy, trashy and a tad silly as well ... yet you can't help but marvel at their effectiveness. And Bruce Bennett is actually pretty good as the island dictator gone bonkers, while former Miss Yugoslavia Tania Velia handles her blonde bombshell role (thjat includes a few short topless scenes) remarkably well.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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