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So much average

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Sandwiched between 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Some Like It Hot' comes this early cross-dressing drama in which shipwrecked hunks Bill Cord and Don Durant spend most the film wearing abbreviated versions of the local girls' sarong skirts: "These will replace your trousers, sir. This is an island of women, we have nothing else."This reasonably engaging Pathecolor Corman quickie resembles one of those 'Star Trek' episodes in which Captain Kirk finds himself in an idyllic primitive paradise, sheds his shirt and drapes himself in a comely big-haired local maiden. Normally Kirk would end up having to literally fight off a jealous equally scantily-clad male rival; but this island paradise being populated exclusively by females, the opposition instead comes from the sternly watchful (with good reason) Queen Pua, played by Jeanne Gerson, who gives easily the best performance, and supplies the otherwise anodyne proceedings with a tasty sprinkling of vinegar.Corman himself retains fond memories of the two week holiday with pay in Hawaii this film provided, and sixty - yes sixty! - years later it retains a stupid charm, despite sadly existing only in rubbish public domain prints.

We have two buff guys who are brothers: one is a murderer and the other an okay dude. They go to sea after the one brother murders a man, a storm comes up and leaves them stranded on an island. This island is full of only women - and only one or two of them are cute to look at. The women dive for pearls for a company that comes to them once in awhile to pick up the pearls. It'll be a few days before that boat arrives to the island and the men have plenty of time to show off their muscles to the girls. The "good" brother falls in-love with one of the woman. These two men, along with the women, must watch out for the shark island god's anger! Basically just two guys showing off their muscles. Not a great film, in-fact it's terrible. What was Roger Corman thinking? Maybe he just needed to fill a quota so he quickly cranked this one out.2/10

'Beautiful Maidens Ruled By A Hideous Stone God!' screamed the poster for this Roger Corman quickie from 1958. Such claims make the film sound half-enjoyable, even if only on a kitsch level. Sadly, it's all rather misleading and the true fact of the matter is that She-Gods Of Shark Reef is a woeful piece of idiocy, directed in a fortnight or so by Corman while he was already on location on Kaua'i, Hawaii, for the making of the similarly-plotted and similarly terrible Naked Paradise.Young gun-runner Jim (Don Durant) is on the lam after killing a couple of guards at a dockside arms depot. His brother Chris (Bill Cord) offers to take him to safety aboard his boat. However, their boat gets washed onto a reef during a storm and the brothers survive only because they are rescued from drowning by the women of a strange, secretive, all-female colony of pearl divers. While waiting for a ship to come along, Chris falls in love with one of the island girls, Mahia (Lisa Montell), much to the annoyance of the island elder Queen Pua (Jeanne Gearson). Meanwhile, Jim starts to get nervous that word about his crime will spread and he will be arrested once the ship arrives, so he starts planning an early escape from the island by repairing an abandoned canoe. Unfortunately, the 'criminal' in him can't resist pocketing a few of the girls' pearls before he leaves, a foolish little crime which brings about complications to his getaway… Shot against beautiful backdrops with a good-looking cast, She-Gods Of Shark Reef offers absolutely nothing beyond these attractive trimmings. Yes, the Hawaiian islands look lovely. Yes, the male leads are muscular, handsome types. Yes, the pearl diving girls are pretty little things. But when it comes to the important things – plot, pace, dialogue, narrative interest, tension, characterisation, conflict – the film has NOTHING to offer. It's a hopeless bore which somehow conspires to make its 63 minute running time seem three times longer than it really is. 63 minutes is roughly how long it would take a snail to slide across a decent-sized back yard – and, believe me, you'd have infinitely more fun watching the snail for the duration of its progress than spending the same 63 minutes sitting through this film!

When Durant kills a guard during a failed arms theft, he convinces his friend (Cord) to sail to a remote island where friends will shelter him to avoid capture by authorities. Alas, the boat on which they sail capsizes in a storm and the two survivors are saved by the inhabitants of an island of women, governed by maternal den mother Gerson. The women work for an unidentified corporation, harvesting pearls, hula dancing and fishing. Sounds idyllic, except that Gerson has summoned the police to recover the fugitives, spurring them to engineer an escape - along with local girl Montell with whom Cord has become romantically involved.It's cheap, uninspired Roger Corman nonsense; picturesque with amiable performances by Montell, Cord and Durant in particular, but little excitement or suspense. The shark reef itself doesn't appear especially threatening, the largest specimen six feet at best and looking more like a lemon shark than a fearsome tiger. Durant and Cord have obviously spent time preparing for their roles in the gymnasium, while Montell has ensured no evident tan lines blur the imagination. Gerson is a matron-like mother superior, disapproving of the boys and their ambitions for her young, impressionable charges.The climax surpassed the meagre expectations, and generally the narrative is pretty coherent albeit very compact. If you worship the Corman factory, then "She Gods" will take pride of place on your shelf. If however you're only a casual viewer, even at barely a tick over the hour mark, this might be a bit too fast and loose to keep you entertained.