Fiend of Dope Island (1959)

Directed by

Nate Watt

Genre

adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man travels to a tropical island where he gets involved with a gang of criminals and a femme fatale. The story mixes danger and romance in a lurid men's adventure style.

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What happens

Fiend of Dope Island, also released as Whiplash, was a lurid men's adventure type motion picture filmed in 1959 and released in 1961. The picture starred and was co-written by Bruce Bennett and was the final film directed by Nate Watt. It was filmed in Puerto Rico where producer J. Harold Odell had previously filmed his Machete (1958) and Counterplot (1959). Several scenes were censored for the United States release. The film co-stars Tania Velia, billed as the "Yugoslavian Bombshell" who had appeared in the July 1959 Playboy, and Puerto Rican actor Miguel Ángel Álvarez. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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