FIEND OF DOPE ISLAND 1960 (TUBI)

One of the most over the top films I have seen.

In the almost 20 years since I last saw this film, I had forgotten how crazy it really was.

I was shocked to see this on TUBI, but damn did it entertain me. Bruce Bennett stars as Charlie Davis, a whip cracking, hard drinking drug smuggler who lives on a small island and keeps the natives in line with violence and death.

Charlie has a new cargo coming to the island as the movie opens. The cargo just happens to be a young women he has paid to come and entertain him. She is named Glory LaVern (Tania Velia) and she soon learns that once on the island she will be "owned" like everyone else.

She befriends David (Robert Bray) who vows to protect her from the insane Charlie. After numerous attempts by Charlie to rape Glory, David takes her away and gets the other islanders to overcome their fear of Charlie and fight to regain their self respect.

Needless to say, this ends badly for Charlie as he become shark bait. This is one of the wildest films I have seen in a while. Bennett is usually a pretty low key actor and always does a damn fine job, and while he continues to tradition of good acting he is REALLY crazy and wild here. He is always craking the whip he carries on someone and gets into insane rages.

I have never seen him in a more psychotic role. Now as for Tania Velia, she is drop dead gorgeous and is even touted in the cradits as "The Yugoslavian Bombshell" and that she is indeed.

He film career was short, but she did have small roles in a few other films such as "Missile To The Moon" and "Queen Of Outer Space". They just don't make women like this anymore.

I think you'll enjoy this film if you give it a try. I'll Recommend it.