Island of Lost Women (1959) – Nostalgia Central

While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne (Australia), American radio commentator Mark Bradley (Jeff Richards) and his pilot, Joe Walker (John Smith), encounter a typhoon and are forced to make an emergency landing on a remote, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean.

They find this island is inhabited by Dr Paul Lujan (Alan Napier) and his three beautiful daughters: Venus (Venetia Stevenson), Mercuria (June Blair), and Urana (Diane Jergens) – who have never seen any other man but their father.

Lujan is a nuclear scientist who has fled here after the attack on Hiroshima to escape from a world which is like “a horrible great snowball rolling faster and faster toward extinction.”

He doesn’t want his two visitors to leave, lest they reveal his whereabouts, so he destroys their plane.

Meanwhile, Mark and Venus have fallen in love, as have Joe and Mercuria, and the two daughters help the men to construct a raft.

A fire in Lujan’s solar furnace now causes an atomic blast, which nearly wrecks the island but which attracts the attention of a search plane.

The attractive cast stands around, looking attractive, while waiting for something in the way of a real plot to arrive. It never quite does.

Mark Bradley
Jeff Richards
Venus
Venetia Stevenson
Joe Walker
John Smith
Urana
Diane Jergens
Mercuria
June Blair
Dr Paul Lujan
Alan Napier
Dr McBain
Gavin Muir
M. Hugh Garland
George Brand

Director
Frank Tuttle