Ah, FotI, filmed in flaming, glowing, blinding technicholor with red doors and yellow walls and blue seas. Yvonne DeCarlo of later Lily Munster fame is a sizzling hot flame in the Bahama's where she's a partner in a posh casino catering to the upper crust.
Suddenly, one day, after landing a twelve foot swordfish she dramatically stumbles upon Howard Duff whom she used to hanky panky with when she was a mere fifteen year old and he was 35. She recognizes Duff immediately, he sort of remembers her but it's now 14 years later and has turned from teen to voluptuous flame. After all the heartache he put her thru back then, she still loves the lug and wants him to love her. So, she sins and gyrates her to a hot rumba island song, he falls for her again and everything seems peachy until Mother Duff appears (casting here is a tad incredible since Duffs mom is actually only 9 years older in than Duff so she seem more like his slightly older girl friend and not his mom, oh well) and tells Yvonne to back off 'cause she wants sonny boy to herself. Yvonne is not terribly threatened and sings and gyrates another flaming island song and then Duff's God Mother appears and means to put an end to this romance. She has all the dirt and intends to use it. First of all Duff impregnated Yvonne but she didn't tell him before he split back when she was 15. The baby was born dead. Then GodMaMa tells MaMa Duff that Yvonne was having an affair with her(Godmama's) husband around the same time as the Duff affair, so she is gonna ruin Yvonne.
Well, MaMa Duff confesses to Yvonne it was she who was having the affair with Godmama's hubby obviously not Yvonne. MaMa Duff makes Yvonne she won't not tell sonny boy Duff and then mama kicks the bucket on her sofa. Duff asks her who it was, Yvonne doesn't tell and the engagement is off. Yvonne gets soused on brandy, sings a sloshed song on the easy chair and hooks up with James Arness of Gunsmoke who has always had the hots for her, so they kiss and then get kidnapped and the coast guard blows up a ship but they escape and presumably live happily ever after. Other characters are thrown in who also have the hots for Yvonne, so actually she was quite the island flame. To watch Yvonne gyrate, bump, grind, shimmy, shake and wiggle to her songs is worth the price of admission alone. The setting in the blue Bahamas is just the perfect venue for this color extravaganza and it's a real juicy soap opera as well. I especially liked the mostly short, abrupt scenes and economical direction, lush sets yet sometimes downright production cost cuts. It's an amusing waste of time.
Suddenly, one day, after landing a twelve foot swordfish she dramatically stumbles upon Howard Duff whom she used to hanky panky with when she was a mere fifteen year old and he was 35. She recognizes Duff immediately, he sort of remembers her but it's now 14 years later and has turned from teen to voluptuous flame. After all the heartache he put her thru back then, she still loves the lug and wants him to love her. So, she sins and gyrates her to a hot rumba island song, he falls for her again and everything seems peachy until Mother Duff appears (casting here is a tad incredible since Duffs mom is actually only 9 years older in than Duff so she seem more like his slightly older girl friend and not his mom, oh well) and tells Yvonne to back off 'cause she wants sonny boy to herself. Yvonne is not terribly threatened and sings and gyrates another flaming island song and then Duff's God Mother appears and means to put an end to this romance. She has all the dirt and intends to use it. First of all Duff impregnated Yvonne but she didn't tell him before he split back when she was 15. The baby was born dead. Then GodMaMa tells MaMa Duff that Yvonne was having an affair with her(Godmama's) husband around the same time as the Duff affair, so she is gonna ruin Yvonne.
Well, MaMa Duff confesses to Yvonne it was she who was having the affair with Godmama's hubby obviously not Yvonne. MaMa Duff makes Yvonne she won't not tell sonny boy Duff and then mama kicks the bucket on her sofa. Duff asks her who it was, Yvonne doesn't tell and the engagement is off. Yvonne gets soused on brandy, sings a sloshed song on the easy chair and hooks up with James Arness of Gunsmoke who has always had the hots for her, so they kiss and then get kidnapped and the coast guard blows up a ship but they escape and presumably live happily ever after. Other characters are thrown in who also have the hots for Yvonne, so actually she was quite the island flame. To watch Yvonne gyrate, bump, grind, shimmy, shake and wiggle to her songs is worth the price of admission alone. The setting in the blue Bahamas is just the perfect venue for this color extravaganza and it's a real juicy soap opera as well. I especially liked the mostly short, abrupt scenes and economical direction, lush sets yet sometimes downright production cost cuts. It's an amusing waste of time.