This is one of those movies that has very little information on IMDB. I bought it from Something Weird and the liner notes on the DVD case say they couldn't find any evidence it was ever released theatrically. It was filmed in Florida and the Bahamas.
The movie starts inside a casino where we meet Brad Angel, a blonde guy in a tuxedo who reminded me of an adult Arch Hall, Jr. Angel leaves the casino, fights some guys on a dock, then informs us via voiceover narration, "Your work is never done when you're a man for hire . . . and your name is Angel."
While flying his pontoon boat over an island, he sees a woman on the beach waving for him to land. He lands in the water, breaks a pontoon, and then meets the woman who says she is being held prisoner on the island. Angel embraces her to calm her down, then lights a cigarette and comes dangerously close to lighting her hair on fire with his cigarette lighter. He sticks the cigarette in her mouth, she takes a drag, then starts coughing. Angel says, "I'm sorry, I thought you smoked." She replies, "I used to smoke. I used to do a lot of things." Angel says, "Don't worry. You will again soon."
This movie is padded with more unnecessary scenes than any movie I have ever seen. There are numerous scenes of Angel and/or the woman running up the beach, down the beach or along the beach. Several times the woman swims out to a boat, then swims back to shore. They run through the forest. They swim together. At one point, the woman falls asleep on the beach and has a long dream sequence. This sequence starts with her wearing a nightgown, sitting beside a pond surrounded by parrots. She gets up and runs across a grassy field in slow motion doing ballet-style leaps and pirouettes. A flock of flamingos keeps running back and forth across the field. Suddenly, Angel shows up wearing a suit and they dance and kiss. Then she gets chased through the forest by the villain. This dream lasts for 5 or 10 minutes before she wakes up. If they cut out all the fluff, they could have covered the entire plot in about 30 minutes.
There's also a great, cliche, 1960s style flashback that involves a pop-rock band playing on a sailboat while women in bikinis do go-go dances on the deck.
This is an hour and a half of wasted celluloid . . . but is a must-see for fans of obscure low-budget movies. And you won't believe the silly plot twist at the end. Thank you, Something Weird, for giving us Brad Angel, man for hire!
Actually-I've been buying movies from SOMETHING WEIRD a long time.
I wouldnt have copies of the WILD and the NAKED,NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES,The GIRL AND THE GEEK, or HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND if not for them.
And I bought these 15 years ago! In clamshell boxes,no less!
Love em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivdukLIO3U
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 24, 2011, 10:18:20 AM
Actually-I've been buying movies from SOMETHING WEIRD a long time.
I wouldnt have copies of the WILD and the NAKED,NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES,The GIRL AND THE GEEK, or HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND if not for them.
And I bought these 15 years ago! In clamshell boxes,no less!
Love em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivdukLIO3U
Me too. I bought a lot of their double and triple feature DVDs over the years. Now I've discovered the wonderful world of their DVD-R selections. I just got a shipment of 8 new ones, plus they sent me THE WEIRD WORLD OF WEIRD VOL. 2 for free. There could be some interesting movie-watching at my house this weekend.