Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

Year: 1979

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Joseph Pevney

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The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to kill all men.

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1

Flight from Indochina

In 1954, a mixed-race group of orphan girls and a Catholic nun escape the fall of Indochina by plane. Their flight is buffeted by a storm, endangering everyone aboard as the craft struggles to stay aloft.

1954 Indochina
2

Oil men set out for Guam

In 1979, six men from an oil company set out to reach Guam so that one of them, blinded by injury, can have his sight restored at a hospital. Their voyage goes off course after radio and navigation equipment fail during an electrical storm, and they crash on a remote island.

1979 Remote Pacific island
3

First contact with island women

The men encounter a group of women in their late 20s who are fearful of men and wary of their presence on the island. Tensions rise as the women and men gauge potential threats and possibilities for interaction.

1979 Remote island
4

Rituals and symbols

The women have limited vocabularies and recite prayers in front of a distorted cross formed by a three-bladed propeller on a post. This symbol anchors their beliefs and daily routines.

1979 Remote island
5

Lizbeth's leadership

Lizbeth emerges as the ruthless leader who consults an unseen 'sister' on all major decisions. Her authority begins to be questioned as the men challenge her rule.

1979 Remote island
6

Past myths and power

The colonized past is revealed: two women were impregnated by natives, but the male child was killed while the girl was spared. The people recount this history to justify their current practices and power dynamics.

1979 Remote island
7

Befriending and captivity

Some of the men befriend certain women, while others are captured on Lizbeth's orders and threatened with death. The island's dangers escalate as loyalties shift.

1979 Remote island
8

The old plane and the nun's diary

One man discovers the plane that the girls crashed in 25 years earlier; the pilots were killed and the nun was severely injured. The nun's diary reveals that the oldest girl, Lizabeth, became a mother figure for the others and cared for the nun until her death five years later.

1979 Plane crash site
9

Truth threatens Lizbeth

Upon learning the nun's diary, the other women see how Lizbeth's authority sprang from fear and manipulation rather than stewardship. Corroborating details undermine her control and sow doubt among the group.

1979 Remote island
10

Lizbeth's downfall

The women rise against Lizbeth and she is killed by the woman who earlier lost her male baby, ending her tyrannical rule. The power structure among the women shifts as rivalries are resolved.

1979 Remote island
11

Salvaging a way off the island

The men salvage a working direction finder from the other plane, enabling a potential escape plan. With this device, they prepare to leave the island in their plane, taking some of the women with them.

1979 Plane wreck site
12

Escape underway

The group lifts off in the men’s plane, heading toward Guam with the island women joining as passengers. The journey marks a fragile new start as they leave behind the danger and tyranny of the island.

1979 Over the Pacific toward Guam

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