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Island of Lost Women (1959)

Island of Lost Women poster
Directed by
Frank Tuttle
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 11m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pilot crash lands on a remote island where he meets a scientist and his two beautiful daughters. The group must survive while dealing with the dangers of the island and each other.

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What happens

Island of Lost Women is a 1959 American independently made black-and-white castaways melodrama film, produced by George C. Bertholon, Albert J. Cohen, and Alan Ladd, that was directed by Frank Tuttle and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film stars Jeff Richards, Venetia Stevenson, John Smith, Alan Napier, Diane Jergens, and June Blair. The film's storyline borrows details from Shakespeare's The Tempest and more contemporaneously the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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