![]() ![]() The first half of the title “ Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women” is squared away. So, that solves the mystery from the film’s initial first five minutes of whatever happened to the youngsters on that 1954 plane. Although it’s treated like a shocking reveal late in the film, it should be no surprise that said nun is actually long dead. ![]() Sister is of course one of the nuns that Lizabeth (Jaime Lyn Bauer, who went on to appear in 523 episodes of Days of Our Lives), the controlling leader of the Beautiful Women, claims to consult off frame. We soon see that the island is occupied by a handful of young women who live together and seem to worship an airplane propeller they call “Sister”. The film opens with a prolonged dialogue-free sequence of a small planeload of nuns and young orphans barely escaping a hot war zone in 1954.Ĭut to present day 1979, when a different small planeload of aging men (led by a perpetually amped-up Steven Keats and the very salt & peppered Salt & Pepper Rat Packer, Peter Lawford) is forced to land on an unnamed and unknown tropical island that looks a lot like Hawaii. From the outset, director Joseph Pevney (a venerable television helmer remembered most for his numerous episodes of the classic Star Trek) and company are quite careful not to leave any pesky details hanging, nor to plant any potential new points of intrigue. Welcome to 1979’s Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women, where the biggest mystery of the titular island is what the heck the big mysteries are supposed to be.
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