Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

And yet two other very good made for TV films from that same year of 1979 - "Like Ordinary People" and "Murder By Natural Causes" seem to be lost to the ages.

CBS TV movie thriller from director Joseph Pevney. A planeload of oil company men, including Steven Keats, Clint Walker, Peter Lawford, and Guich Koock, is forced to land on an unknown Pacific island, where they discover a multi-ethnic tribe of beautiful woman living in the jungle. The two groups slowly start to interact, and Keats begins to learn who they are and how they got there, while a tribe of "head-choppers" from a nearby island sporadically attacks them all.

Featuring standard TV-movie production values of the time, this is really just an excuse to show a lot of pretty women in skimpy outfits, while aging male stars get to enjoy a tropical vacation while filming as well as acting with said ladies. The biggest surprise by the end of this one was just how little had actually occurred during its running time. Shot in Hawaii.

I have to believe that someone thought this movie was good 40 years ago, but I'd need to go in a time machine to find out.And to say this movie is sexist is beyond an understatement.Just glad I watched it on Svengoolie.

I absolutely love this movie. The plot is not predictable, though the actors seem wooden at times. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I wept at the final scenes. True, it requires a bit of a willing suspension of belief, but isn't that what movies are for? This is my favourite TV movie of all time, and I heartily recommend it to anyone and everyone.

As I was watching Mysterious Island Of Beautiful Women I thought at first these girls might have been a part of Bob Hope's USO tour that got lost in the Pacific. Far from that these women who all look like they could get guaranteed employment as Las Vegas showgirls, but they are war orphans from Vietnam whose plane crashed in the Pacific. They were spirited away from the war by a Catholic priest. What happened to her is for you watch the film for if you want.

Anyway some headhunters every now and then visit the island for a little something something from the women. It gives this group of Amazons a bad attitude for the male species.

Which is carried over when an oil company plane gets lost and has to make a forced landing. Some of the men are Clint Walker, Peter Lawford, Steven Keats and Sandy McPeak. The women are led by Jamie Lyn Bauer who has the worst attitude of all and some of her group is Rosalind Chao, Jamie Kennedy, and Kathryn Davis.

No doubt the women are beautiful, most of the men are dogs and the headhunters are just doing their thing and counting themselves lucky they have the equivalent of a bordello on this island when they feel the need.

The guy who makes out best in this Michael McGreevey who was being airlifted out to a hospital in Guam. He plays his scenes with a bandage over his eyes, the better not to see what he's involved with.

Blown off course during a storm, a plane-load of big, hairy men (including Clint "Killdozer" Walker, and Peter Lawford) lands on the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (including: Jayne Kennedy, Rosalind Chao, and Deborah Shelton!).

Said females are a semi-savage group of supermodel cultists, led by the goggle-eyed zealot, Lizabeth (Jaime Lyn Bauer). What terrible secret are they hiding? Why do they fear males so much? Who, on this uncharted island, keeps their hair and makeup looking perfect?

MIOBW is a blissfully absurd, made-for-TV movie from a time when such productions seemed "edgy". Harmless and utterly enjoyable from beginning to end...