Robert Bean and Betsy Jones-Moreland |
Undercover agent "Sparks" Moran (Robert Towne) has become part of the gang run by Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone). Renzo has taken some gold from Cuba with the help of a bunch of Cuban soldiers, and is heading toward Puerto Rico in his boat. Accompanying him are his moll Mary-Belle (Betsy Jones Moreland), her brother Happy Jack (Robert Bean), and an idiot named Pete (Beach Dickerson) who can do uncanny imitations of animals. Wanting the loot for himself, Renzo plans to kill off the soldiers and blame it on a sea monster, which turns out to actually exist.
Carbone, Jomes-Moreland, and the monster |
Romero, Towne, bit players, Carbone |
The screenplay was written by Charles B. Griffith, who turned in better work for Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters and some others. Inexplicably, this was actually remade in 2019.
Verdict: Sixty minutes of silliness with some spirited performances. **.
Did not know the talented Towne was also an actor--I LOVE Shampoo and Chinatown.
ReplyDeleteCorman's pics are always worth watching, even the really bad ones, so I will check this one out.
-C
And this one is pretty bad! Towne did not do much acting before he turned to script-writing and was much more successful.
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