With a title like this, you are not expecting
much and you don't get much. On the other hand since Mamie Van Doren gets
top billing you expect a little sizzle and a fair amount of screen time.
You get neither. Seemingly, she owed Roger Corman another film and this is
what she got. She had nothing good to say about it afterwards. Not that many
of her 1960's films have anything good to say about them, This is for example
a whole lot better than 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt but then so is a punch
in the eye. Mamie stays well secured and bundled up from beginning to the
end. And on an island with a whole bunch of men ready and willing.
See if this plot reminds you of anything - scientists bring back something
from Antarctica and there are plants that walk and are voracious. If you
guessed The Thing and The Triffids, you would win the prize if there was
one. An island that serves as a refueling base for the Navy receives a plane
flying in from Antarctica but when it crash lands all they find in it is
a pilot in a trance and a bunch of plants that were being brought for study.
All the scientists and other crew are missing. Never a good sign. The base
scientist decides to plant the plants to save them. Bad idea. People keep
wandering out into the foliage - twice to see why a dog was howling - another
bad idea. The men in the plant suits are hard at work. And they are producing
offspring. And heading to the head quarters. In all of this is our heroine
Mamie Van Doren as a nurse who has couple alpha males butting heads.
She looks upset that people are dying. That is about it.
This runs almost 90 minutes which was about 20 minutes too long that they
had to fill with the romantic triangle and some guy and his dog - the parts
when the plants spray acid and tears off arms isn't too bad and there was
potential for a Fort Apache scenario but they probably ran out of money so
could not do it.
