Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

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Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
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GenreAdventure
Written by Gary Sherman
Sandor Stern
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Starring Steven Keats
Jaime Lyn Bauer
Rosalind Chao
Theme music composer William Loose
Jack Tillar
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers Alan Landsburg
Howard Lipstone
ProducerPaul Freeman
Production location Hawaii
CinematographyAl Francis
Editor Corky Ehlers
Running time96 minutes
Production company Alan Landsburg Productions
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseDecember 1, 1979 (1979-12-01)

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women is a 1979 television film directed by Joseph Pevney.

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It originally aired on CBS on December 1, 1979. [1] [2] It was produced by Alan Landsburg Productions. [3]

Plot

After the fall of Indochina to the communists in 1954, a mixed-race group of orphan girls and a Catholic nun escape on a plane, but the flight soon runs into a storm. In 1979, six men from an oil company are trying to reach Guam in a sea plane, so that one of them who has been blinded by an injury can have his sight restored at a hospital. They go off course after their radio and navigation equipment are damaged in an electrical storm, landing on the shore of a remote island. They soon encounter a group of women in their late 20s who are fearful of men, and often clash with a nearby tribe of "head-choppers." The women have limited vocabularies, mostly childish names, and recite prayers in the presence of a distorted cross formed by a 3-bladed propeller on a post. They take orders from Lizbeth, a ruthless leader who consults with an unseen "sister" on all important questions. The men are told that in the past, two of the women were impregnated by natives, but the male child was killed while a girl was kept alive.

The visiting men befriend some of the women, but several are captured on Lizbeth's orders and threatened with death. One of the men finds the plane that the girls crashed in 25 years earlier; the pilots were killed and the nun severely injured. Confined to the plane and unable to speak, the nun recorded in her diary how the oldest girl Lizabeth became the mother figure to the other girls, also caring for the nun until her death five years later. When this is revealed to the rest of the women, Lizbeth's authority is undermined, and she is killed by the woman whose male baby she earlier killed. The men salvage a working "direction finder" from the other plane to escape the island in their plane with the other women.

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