Also known as Island of Sister Theresa, this was the last movie that director Joseph Pevney (Man of a Thousand Faces) would make, working from a script by Gary Sherman (Dead and Buried) and Sandor Stern (The Amityville Horror).

When wealthy Gordon Duvall (Peter Lawford) uses his private plane to get Danny, one of his workers (Michael McGreevey), to the hospital, pilot Stu (Sandy McPeak) gets lost and they have to land on what they think is an uncharted and isolated island. Too bad for the men -- which include Mike (Steven Keats), Wendell (Clint Walker) and J. J. (Guich Koock) -- that a crash of women and nuns years ago turned that into a place where Lizbeth (Jaime Lyn Bower) communicates with the spirit of the long-dead Sister Theresa.

With a tribe of women that includes Snow (Kathryn Daniels), Chocolate (Jayne Kennedy from Body and Soul!), Flower (Rosalind Chao), Bambi (Deborah Shelton, Sins of the Night) and Jo Jo (Susie Coelho, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo), the normal matriachal society moments happen -- "What is a kiss?" Snow asks one of the men -- and Lizbeth agrees to let the men stay if they take care of the cannibalistic headhunters that live on the island.

I mean, yes, it's cheesy, but how magical of a world did we once live in where this kind of stuff aired on TV with no warning? We were once better.

In an attempt to escape revolutionary troops during the war in French Indo-China, a Catholic nun and a small number of young female children board a plane in an attempt to escape to safety. Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean the airplane flies into a severe thunderstorm and crash lands on a deserted tropical island. Now, 25 years later, an amphibious airplane with a handful of men also encounters a severe thunderstorm which destroys most of its electrical equipment. So, in order to get their bearings the captain decides to land on what just happens to be the same tropical island. As they search the island the men discover a small group of women whose only knowledge of men comes from the headhunters who visit their island to rape and kill. Because these new men seem different the women are conflicted over what action to take. Anyway, so much for the basic plot. While the movie had plenty of talent and potential the fact is that except for Jamie Lynn Bauer (as "Lizabeth"), Rosalind Chao ("Flower") and Kathryn Davis ("Snow"), none of the other actors or actresses were allowed to demonstrate their abilities in any meaningful way. Clint Walker, for example, was terribly miscast as a disgruntled man with an attitude named "Wendell". Likewise, Deborah Shelton (as "Bambi") and Jayne Kennedy ("Chocolate") hardly had any lines at all. The result was a severe waste of talent. Not that it really mattered as the script was very weak and the storyline itself was extremely implausible. That said, even though the scenery was beautiful and the women were all quite attractive, the movie itself could have used significant improvement. Below average.

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women is an utterly predictable deserted island story with a number of television movie-of-the-week types and Hollywood has-beens. The plot: A group of young Catholic school girls are evacuated during the Indo-China War. Their plane crashes on an island and the girls are left to fend for themselves. Fifteen or so years later, a plane carrying a group of men is forced to land on the island. At first the girls, now women, are leery of the men. But the women soon realize that the men and their guns may be able to help them defeat the headhunters who regularly visit the island.

Everything about this television movie is telegraphed from a mile away. The women's reaction to the men - predictable. The men's reaction to the wild women - predictable. The fact that the women's leader, Lizabeth, is a nut-case - predictable. The fact that the women's spiritual leader, Sister Teresa, is actually dead - predictable. The narrow escape at the end from the headhunters - predictable. There's not one surprising moment in the entire 90+ minute runtime. I was able to make coffee, do a load of laundry, and play with my son as I watched the movie and I didn't miss a thing.

The ending of the film is a real letdown. Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women builds toward a promised showdown between the stranded men and the "beautiful women" with the headhunters, but it never materializes. Instead, everyone hops on the plane and takes off. What a cop-out!