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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Enchanted Island (1958)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.