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Ho-hum nudie film, good for a snooze
lor_14 February 2011
Nudity on screen was scarce in the early '60s, accounting for the production of low-effort junk like IT'S HOT ON SIN ISLAND.

The Something Weird shill who hawks the DVD-R contents on the back of the box is needlessly condescending about what would satisfy the circa 1964 audience. Suffice it to say that I contend the target audience members, not passively lapping up any & all porn thrown their way, might have been bored to tears by this sub-standard entry.

The crosstalk of two lamest-of-lame comics (Pauly Dash and Dick Lynn) dominates the movie. Dash was equally terrible in an extended drunk routine in THE HOT PEARL SNATCH, while Lynn took advantage of his Miami base to get hired in recurring roles on both Jackie Gleason and Dom DeLuise's locally made TV variety series later in the '60s.

But this unfunny duo is fortunately upstaged by five beautiful models, stripping off their clothes at every opportunity. They carry around firewood or towels or whatever to hide their private parts from view, but ample toplessness is what the movie delivers.

Dash & Lynn run a 62-ft. long charter boat, for which they have just a week to come up with payments to the owner Claire, who pops up in the final reel as a drunk. Dash reprises his patented lousy drunk routine, too, just to make the film worse.

Plot line of them dealing with a pair of gangster/counterfeiters on the run, all ending up on Paradise Island in the Keys, is very stupidly handled, with keystone cops-style action directed on the level of a Ray Dennis Steckler backyard home movie. One-shot filmmaker "Peter Marshall" would have done better to visit England and study the TV shows of Benny Hill, who had already made a splash a couple of years before this junk was lensed.

Casting of the gals is good, with breasts ranging from normal sized to a blonde who is well and truly stacked. Unfortunately, the print used by Something Weird to memorialize this movie on video is completely faded to near monochrome pink/brown.
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