I was born in 1958. It's fun to see what people watched back around that time. I too was not allowed to watch these so now at 66 I think I'm gonna have a sit down and be entertained.
I remember hearing about a missile crisis in the Carribean in the early 60's, but until now I was unaware of the bombshell threat that was Tania Vella. Wow!
Surprising movie that is full of the right stuff and the fiend is a great antagonist with island fun behind all the drama. Well worth an attentive watch.
I never heard of the Cramps until just now, 18 December 2024. I looked them up on the Internet and listened to some of their 'music'. **They should have been arrested for criminal insanty and whisked away to an asylum, never to be seen or heard of again. They're so bad that they make Tiny Tim sound good by comparison.
Thanks, I haven't laughed so much since Reefer Madness, especially at Charlie playing his congo drum so fast that his new dancing girl collapsed from exhaustion and the other musicians were covered in sweat. Of course he would see her collapse as an opportunity to have his evil way. with her. The final scene was classic, with peace and harmony restored in the tropical paradise, the young lovers wrapped around each other and the slick music thrown in. They don't make 'em like that anymore
You had me until..."They don't make 'em like that anymore" demonstrated your absolute nostalgic retardation of developing an appreciation for what was said after Nosferatu or Metropolis. There is no life in nostalgia for a greater time that wasn't if you bother to remember, remember how?
The "Fiend" (played by Bruce Bennett) in this film reminds me of the Guy Caballero character played by Joe Flaherty in the SCTV series from about 40 years ago. Except for the wheelchair that Caballero used, the two characters had similar behaviors and personas. That Lori Laverne, the Yugo, was truly a bombshell!!!
Tania Velia was born on April 3, 1935 in Moravice, Croatia. She is an actress, known for Queen of Outer Space (1958), Missile to the Moon (1958) and Sea Hunt (1958).
I thought her performance was actually very good overall. She felt genuine and likeable. She carries the movie really. The lead male actors accomplished their characters' image, but they hammed it up or were like cardboard, not delivering lines with a natural touch. But I see a real effort made overall, on the entire cast and sets. Pretty good for a low budget film.
Thank you, Lisa, for all your hard work over the last ten years! Given SWV has had a unique place in my life since Bill Clinton's first term, your labors of love are deeply appreciated!!!
The song, "Forever Hold Me" was the second best part of the whole movie, along with the singer who sung it. The best, by far, was the Lady, of course. Besides being extremely fine, she wasn't too bad at acting. She was really built, without being way too much, anywhere.
The YT algo kept kicking this one up so I clicked it just to make it go away. Hooked I stayed with it, not bad. The comments are a hoot! Thanks for putting this one up!
For analog film on a low budget, this is pretty good. The part about demonizing weed is silly, but that was a politically popular theme to avoid being accused of being a communist. The lead actress is gorgeous and actually pretty talented. All things considered.
Bray's performance was actually quite restrained unlike the seasoned actor Bennet who had worked under the likes of John Huston. Bennett's sense of timing was lost from the beginning of the film. And his Tarzan was intelligent and well crafted,too.
One movie I had never viewed, this movie was very entertaining--- it surprised me. I was a little kid in 61. I was wishing all during the movie that it was in color to see all the tropical island panoramas.
Shout out to Bruce Bennet had a stellar career as Tarzan then in Treasure of the Sierra Madres - opposite Ida Lupino in the man I love -never gave a bad performance- great laconic voice -not everyone could be Robert Taylor-
He's done better work than this, but you definitely hated his character he created here. It seemed difficult for him to get fully immersed in being evil maybe, so he overdid the mania. But he didn't mail it in. He did make real effort. He has done lots of good roles no question.
This movie may had been film in Puerto Rico, Miguel Angel Alvarez, Ruth Fernandez, Ralphie Rodriguez, Elmundo Rivera Alvarez are Puerto Ricans actors and singers well known here in the Island.
10 celebrities you never knew were part of Puerto Ricans, Also Erik Estrada, Henry Darrow, Raul Julia, Benicio Del Toro, Jose Feliciano, Rita Moreno, marc Anthony, Jose Ferrer.@@kwd3109
It makes you wonder if this was the actual inspiration, but Red Scare program censors dumbed it down to 'Little Buddy' flubbing everything to replace the whip. Gilligan mishaps keeping them stranded, but nobody got busy with Ginger and Mary Ann? That's hilarious really in itself. This movie to its credit was more realistic in that respect.
@@joseortega-us6rnThe locals did a good job in this movie. They wouldn't know for 2-5 days what they captured on film. So everyone had to take their roles seriously on where to be positioned, doing as scripted, and feeling the scene mood overall. It's got some bad acting by the 2 male lead characters, but overall it's watchable with some interesting meaning in the script for the period. Not bad actually!
This movie prompted me to do a bit of internet research on Ken Darby. In his day he was a big deal. He won multiple Academy Awards; worked with people like Marilyn Monroe; wrote (although uncredited) Elvis's hit "Love Me Tender; wrote the lyrics to the Munchkin mayor's song; even published a 'biography' of Nero Wolfe's house; and on and on, etc. The movie's very existence begs the question of how he got pulled into this debacle, though it's wonderfully campy. Money? There can't be too much money involved with this production. Maybe someone out there who's looking for a subject about whom to write a book could start with Ken Darby. Was Bruce Bennett needing the money (unlikely, as he had a long, varied and successful career during his 100 years of life)? This film alone could be worth a chapter or more.
I have a conspiracy theory about the making of this film. The cast worked for free from a stolen script written by an asylum inmate. The film was donated and the equipment was borrowed. It was filmed on a public beach. Unfortunately, everyone involved escaped prosecution
This is simply NOT true, iv'e been consuming marijuana since 1977 and it was NOT a "gateway" drug as they claim. I was a fortune 500 employee and very successful. Marijuana does impair short term memory a bit, other than that, it's a GREAT medicine. Plants and mushrooms ARE on this green earth for a reason. Best wishes and happy holidays..............Also, nothing has destroyed human lives like alcohol (iv'e NEVER drank). For thousands of yrs childrens lives HAVE been RUINED by alcohol. Marijuana does not cause 40,000 American deaths each yr but alcohol DOES ! Truth, it matters.
At precisely 38:07 the letters "POS" appear to the right of the lady's smiling head. I took this as a sign from a benevolent entity that, even with the fast forward feature fully engaged, I was wasting precious time. Great invisible horn section.
Thanks! It looks very interesting. I want to watch Bruce Bennett freak out, lol. I only remember him as being a nice quiet guy from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This is better than the sequel: “The Dope Of Fiend Island”
Perfect! 🤣
😂😂😂
Busting out the Dad jokes. Nice
That one made more money.
Hey! I was going to post that!
Wow, this is an old one! And I'd never have been allowed to watch it as a child. So, retired..with a fresh cup of coffee in hand, I'm ready!
I've been doing a lot of that, I saw 10 ! At long last ! Lol
Sick of coffee
I was born in 1958. It's fun to see what people watched back around that time. I too was not allowed to watch these so now at 66 I think I'm gonna have a sit down and be entertained.
Born in 52 , saw Sonny Bono staring in a scare film around '62 at school . Riverside Calif. We had a mock up communist style vote for head kid . haha
@@duelenigma7732I've seen that Sonny Bono scare film! It's on TH-cam.
I met Bruce Bennett at a Hollywood collector's show. Such a nice man and he aged so well. He lived to be 100 years old
I have always enjoyed any film Bruce appeared in!
Not only that, he won an olympic silver medal in shot put, 1928 .. believe it or not. Using his birthname, Brix.
And his father known as Helga lived to 123 fact it’s on YT.
No you didn't. You're a liar
@@johnzeszut3170no you
Don't.
How could anyone resist that title…..
Or it’s sequel the dope if fiend island lol 😂
@@waltershoults8803 You stole my line! I thought of that years ago. Nuts. I should have copyrighted it.
@@waltershoults8803 It wasn't funny on the first shot. And it's 'of' not 'if'.
@@leelarson107 Yeah, I'm sure it was a big seller.
😄 you know.
The band playing at the bar can make a guitar, conga drum, and maracas sound like a whole Latin orchestra. Such talent!
That's the magic of Hollywood
30 years later that was really possible, even live, with samplers, romplers, loopers, sequencers and drum computers 😂
It's the weed
I remember hearing about a missile crisis in the Carribean in the early 60's, but until now I was unaware of the bombshell threat that was Tania Vella. Wow!
That guy's bongo skills are otherworldly
Respect; because...the didn't have sampling. Somebody actually played that.
I don't think that he understood your sarcasm. 😂😂😂😂
That weed really is the devils lettuce!
Look what it did to charlie
I'm never smoking it again.
Or eating it
@@JupiterCyclops-l5x
Absolutely Right 👍
Like desi arnez on redbull.....and meth, can't forget the meth.🤤
Surprising movie that is full of the right stuff and the fiend is a great antagonist with island fun behind all the drama. Well worth an attentive watch.
so this is where the cramps got the name for the album
...and It begins with a whip...
I never heard of the Cramps until just now, 18 December 2024. I looked them up on the Internet and listened to some of their 'music'. **They should have been arrested for criminal insanty and whisked away to an asylum, never to be seen or heard of again. They're so bad that they make Tiny Tim sound good by comparison.
@leelarson107 Did you see where they performed at a mental institution in the early 80's? Haha
Thanks, I haven't laughed so much since Reefer Madness, especially at Charlie playing his congo drum so fast that his new dancing girl collapsed from exhaustion and the other musicians were covered in sweat. Of course he would see her collapse as an opportunity to have his evil way. with her. The final scene was classic, with peace and harmony restored in the tropical paradise, the young lovers wrapped around each other and the slick music thrown in. They don't make 'em like that anymore
You had me until..."They don't make 'em like that anymore" demonstrated your absolute nostalgic retardation of developing an appreciation for what was said after Nosferatu or Metropolis. There is no life in nostalgia for a greater time that wasn't if you bother to remember, remember how?
Have you seen Coke Fiend or the 90s remake of Reefer Madness?
@@richardgreen49 I'll have a look thanks
I was thinking about that exact resemblance myself 😂
Never have I had the pleasure to read a more interesting and well-written "Description" section.... the movie is a hoot as well.
@@Ciscodays They spent it all on cheap rum!
The "Fiend" (played by Bruce Bennett) in this film reminds me of the Guy Caballero character played by Joe Flaherty in the SCTV series from about 40 years ago. Except for the wheelchair that Caballero used, the two characters had similar behaviors and personas. That Lori Laverne, the Yugo, was truly a bombshell!!!
LOL!!! Loved old Guy C.
@@KingOFuh Me too! I think Joe Flaherty passed away in the last year or two. Loved him.
"The Yugoslavian Bombshell"?? Can't wait hahaha. (BTW- great description, sir!)
I enjoyed this movie, kind of like a Gillian’s Island meets Jaws.
Who's Gillian? Oh, the guy that palled around with the Skupper....
That would. BEE . A EPISODE. Twilight Zone .
@@jamesellis2784 Sorry. I'm not understanding your response.
@@williamriley-le9zo Gilgamesh .
@@williamriley-le9zo you didn’t watch TV in the 60s in America
The whip in the bongo drums should be in a museum somewhere!😂
That Charlie is something else, what a character.😂
Tania Velia was born on April 3, 1935 in Moravice, Croatia. She is an actress, known for Queen of Outer Space (1958), Missile to the Moon (1958) and Sea Hunt (1958).
and still alive. . . .incredible
I thought her performance was actually very good overall. She felt genuine and likeable. She carries the movie really.
The lead male actors accomplished their characters' image, but they hammed it up or were like cardboard, not delivering lines with a natural touch.
But I see a real effort made overall, on the entire cast and sets. Pretty good for a low budget film.
Nice to know she was GREAT
@@toirmetalshaping According to the IMDb, she passed away in 2004.
She was hot 🔥
This was a very entertaining movie. Much better than first expected. Thanks so much for sharing.
Looks like a drive-in pulp movie. Great to watch.
Wonder if DEVO learned their whip-cracking skills from this movie?
Whip it good
chuck - That's a statement, not a question.
😅 😊
Now you know how Harrison Ford prepped for his role as Indiana 😏
And so hip with the whip😅🤣
This movie learned from Devo
This movie is Dope! Forgot to say thanks.💙
Recoil in horror as dozens of armed men are repeatedly terrorized by a whip - wielding a hole.
Birch trees and coconut squash take me back to my childhood on Dope Island.
Unforgettable, no doubt!
Thank you, Lisa, for all your hard work over the last ten years! Given SWV has had a unique place in my life since Bill Clinton's first term, your labors of love are deeply appreciated!!!
The song, "Forever Hold Me" was the second best part of the whole movie, along with the singer who sung it. The best, by far, was the Lady, of course. Besides being extremely fine, she wasn't too bad at acting. She was really built, without being way too much, anywhere.
A favorite. I have the double feature DVD. Keep up the great work, Lisa. The SWV legend will never die! Love you, Kyle.
SWV ??
@oldfan1963 Something Weird Video
🙄😕
Great movie! Love the old movies!
The YT algo kept kicking this one up so I clicked it just to make it go away. Hooked I stayed with it, not bad. The comments are a hoot! Thanks for putting this one up!
For analog film on a low budget, this is pretty good. The part about demonizing weed is silly, but that was a politically popular theme to avoid being accused of being a communist.
The lead actress is gorgeous and actually pretty talented. All things considered.
Thank you for the movie and the awesome description. 💙🤗
Great to see Robert Bray of Lassie fame get the girl and be the hero.
Bray's performance was actually quite restrained unlike the seasoned actor Bennet who had worked under the likes of John Huston. Bennett's sense of timing was lost from the beginning of the film. And his Tarzan was intelligent and well crafted,too.
This just may be the best movie I've ever seen.
One movie I had never viewed, this movie was very entertaining--- it surprised me. I was a little kid in 61. I was wishing all during the movie that it was in color to see all the tropical island panoramas.
Gilligan's Island meets Miami Vice. I love it.
I thought I recognized the Minnow 😂
Amazing how the guy with the maracas got the horn section so on point.
Thanks for the synopsis. Too funny!
This was a lot of fun. Thanx.😃
Shout out to Bruce Bennet had a stellar career as Tarzan then in
Treasure of the Sierra Madres - opposite Ida Lupino in the man I love -never gave a bad performance- great laconic voice -not everyone could be Robert Taylor-
Also in Mildred Pierce among others Bruce Bennett was a good and a busy actor
He's done better work than this, but you definitely hated his character he created here. It seemed difficult for him to get fully immersed in being evil maybe, so he overdid the mania. But he didn't mail it in. He did make real effort. He has done lots of good roles no question.
I like him as the aging ballplayer in "Angels in the Outfield". He had a Gary Cooper quality.
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
🔥I luv❤flicks like this - thank you and Happy Holidays! 😎💯💜💙🖤💫👍!
"I'll take your eye's out for you then you'll see" 🤣
This woman is perfect.
There is only one frog on this island but he seems to be in every scene!
Bladder mechanic 😂😂😂😂
I was eleven when this was made... Don't remember seeing it, even at the drive-ins...
Too risqué 🤣😂🤷🏼♂️
Come for the abuse stay for the dance numbers
Must of been one big high for everyone when they burnt that pot barn down. Like smoke on the water
The control they have on us is amazing.
An alternate-universe Gilligan’s Island.
This movie may had been film in Puerto Rico, Miguel Angel Alvarez, Ruth Fernandez, Ralphie Rodriguez, Elmundo Rivera Alvarez are Puerto Ricans actors and singers well known here in the Island.
10 celebrities you never knew were part of Puerto Ricans, Also Erik Estrada, Henry Darrow, Raul Julia, Benicio Del Toro, Jose Feliciano, Rita Moreno, marc Anthony, Jose Ferrer.@@kwd3109
It makes you wonder if this was the actual inspiration, but Red Scare program censors dumbed it down to 'Little Buddy' flubbing everything to replace the whip. Gilligan mishaps keeping them stranded, but nobody got busy with Ginger and Mary Ann? That's hilarious really in itself. This movie to its credit was more realistic in that respect.
@@joseortega-us6rnThe locals did a good job in this movie. They wouldn't know for 2-5 days what they captured on film. So everyone had to take their roles seriously on where to be positioned, doing as scripted, and feeling the scene mood overall.
It's got some bad acting by the 2 male lead characters, but overall it's watchable with some interesting meaning in the script for the period.
Not bad actually!
Now I know, what "cracker" means. Very educational film. 1961?.
(El paso, was in the charts?).
This movie prompted me to do a bit of internet research on Ken Darby. In his day he was a big deal. He won multiple Academy Awards; worked with people like Marilyn Monroe; wrote (although uncredited) Elvis's hit "Love Me Tender; wrote the lyrics to the Munchkin mayor's song; even published a 'biography' of Nero Wolfe's house; and on and on, etc. The movie's very existence begs the question of how he got pulled into this debacle, though it's wonderfully campy. Money? There can't be too much money involved with this production. Maybe someone out there who's looking for a subject about whom to write a book could start with Ken Darby. Was Bruce Bennett needing the money (unlikely, as he had a long, varied and successful career during his 100 years of life)? This film alone could be worth a chapter or more.
🧜♀️ What a wild ride 💃🏼Thanx for sharing beautiful 💚💜 love + light xx 🌻
OMG when I found out the stuff was weed I laughed ass off
That dude playing the bongos is really convincing!!! He was on fire!! I wouldn't be surprised if he was a professional player in real life!!
Who was playing the trumpet?
I have a conspiracy theory about the making of this film. The cast worked for free from a stolen script written by an asylum inmate. The film was donated and the equipment was borrowed. It was filmed on a public beach. Unfortunately, everyone involved escaped prosecution
Marijuana-“Assassin of Youth!” 😂
This is simply NOT true, iv'e been consuming marijuana since 1977 and it was NOT a "gateway" drug as they claim. I was a fortune 500 employee and very successful. Marijuana does impair short term memory a bit, other than that, it's a GREAT medicine. Plants and mushrooms ARE on this green earth for a reason. Best wishes and happy holidays..............Also, nothing has destroyed human lives like alcohol (iv'e NEVER drank). For thousands of yrs childrens lives HAVE been RUINED by alcohol. Marijuana does not cause 40,000 American deaths each yr but alcohol DOES ! Truth, it matters.
Kind of true
Their misrepresentation of the ganja industry was pretty hilarious.
At precisely 38:07 the letters "POS" appear to the right of the lady's smiling head. I took this as a sign from a benevolent entity that, even with the fast forward feature fully engaged, I was wasting precious time. Great invisible horn section.
The whole series is dope
So bad it's good!
This was filmed on location in Puerto Rico.
actually it was done in Oklahoma
Filmed there in January 1959 according to newspapers of the day. I just added that to IMDb. Probably not filmed in the Florida Keys as IMDb says.
And just look what the ‘assassin of youth’ has done to that place!🤣😂🤷🏼♂️
This is awesomeness.
Hello. What have I stumbled on to?
Updated title ...Punkass Natives of Dope Island.
Bad guy becomes fish food.
1961 . AwEsomE
This is a nightmare for moviegoers. Who gets the whip? Rare to see such a crisp print and digitized so well. Super upload.
Those oxen at 1:57 can really sing.
This has the same name as the last album from the Cramps!
Its one of the Movies The Cramps liked !!!
Lux and Ivy were big fans of SWV!
Dames,Booze,Chains and Boots
Dope fiend boogie!!!!!
They don’t make them like they used to,thank goodness 😆
I wonder if it was nominated for an oscar?
Great fun - Thank you!
“Lessen I say so!” LOL.
Finally a movie about drugs
Great vintage flick🎉
Love the 'Gilligans Island' palms against the Universal backlot Toluca Lake hills!
The very description of this movie makes for fantastic reading! 🤣
This took the Corn right off the Cob 🤣👍
Liked it. Thank you. 😊
This is an amazing retro comedy!! I thought it was a real movie I had missed!!
Can't it be both?
It's not a comedy.
Previously titled "The Dope of Fiend Island".
😁😁😁😁😂😂😁😂🤣😀 good one.!
Brilliant rewrite.
Very clever Mr. Cleaver😅 I wanted to comment that “they don’t make movies like this anymore”… but I’ll just leave it at that 😄!
The Dope Fiend of Ireland?
@tedwarden1608 Let's not start a cultural profile.
That should read the drunken Irish island.
1:02:51 is the bookmark you are looking for.
😂👍
That's not a screaming face, though. She's corpsing.
Google the actress nude. AZ Nude has it better. She was also in Playboy.
really well done 8/10
The title caught my eye because the fantastic Cramps called one of their albums "Fiends of dope island"
I'm checking that one👍🎯
The shark scene was laugh-out-loud funny.
Started playing the movie and didn't realize I had the player at 2X speed until after the credits - sure improved the opening music!
director's cut is not as linear. it all makes sense now
Great movie, seeing it for the first time. Now I have to look up the csst to see if anyone remains with us.
Good one.
A beautiful pearl.
Great film I enjoyed it😅
Has that Gilligan's Island feeling to it.
Thanks! It looks very interesting. I want to watch Bruce Bennett freak out, lol. I only remember him as being a nice quiet guy from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
How did this one sneak past MST3K ?
EVERYTHING should sneak past MST3K. I won't watch any movie that they've tampered with.
Originally called: "The doosh of bag island".
Thanks algorithm!
Nice ending. Charlie was DEA (or what it used to be a part of). This is more true to life than anyone realized at the time.
The title was enough to grab my attention,and the description sold me.This sounds like a truly awful movie..can't wait.
Cmon baby, go go! You people worship Russ's Meyer
The description captured my attention and tickled my curiosity even though the storyline sounds utterly ridiculous.
Can't get dope like that anymore. It's a bygone era.
“No two-bit hustler’s gonna make a monkey outta me”🤣😂🤣 He’s doing pretty good on his own.
enjoyed your description more than the 14 minutes I watched
"Congo" is a region/country. Bongos and congas are hand-percussion musical instruments. Some of you dopes took the dope part seriously and it shows.