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Bradley and Walker to his trio of young, beautiful daughters, Venus (Stevenson), Urana (Jergens), and Mercuria (Blair). The two men soon learn that Dr. Lujan was an atomic scientist who fled the civilized world with his family because he fears the havoc being caused by the discovery of nuclear energy.
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To the doctor's disapproval, his two older daughters easily fall in love with the two attractive strangers and try to help them, while the third, 16 and jealous of her sisters, tries to foil their plans. This forces them to make a choice between staying on the island with their father or returning
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Lujan, unfriendly to the point of hostility, orders the intruders to leave his island, but one of their aircraft's two engines is too badly damaged for them to be able to comply without first making repairs. He grants them a couple days in order to do so. In the meantime he grudgingly introduces
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The film was based on an original story by Prescott Chaplin. Film rights were bought by Jaguar Productions, Alan Ladd's production company, which had a film development deal with Warner Bros. Ray Buffum was hired to write the script. Frank Tuttle, who just made
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for Jaguar, was assigned to direct. Jeff Richards was given the lead role and was signed by Jaguar to a five-year contract for two films a year. Warner Bros contract star Venetia Stevenson was cast opposite him. June Blair was borrowed from 20th Century Fox.
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Engine trouble develops, and Walker must make a forced landing on the beach of a small, uncharted island inhabited by Dr. Paul Lujan (Napier). On the island with Lujan are his three naive daughters, who have never known another man except their father.
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broadcasts. When Bradley mentions that he plans on doing a radio broadcast about Lujan and his island location after he returns to civilization, the doctor begins to scheme a way to keep the men and his daughters on the island.
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Mark Bradley (Richards) is a radio commentator whose pilot, Joe Walker (Smith), is flying him across the
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Schallert, Edwin (Sep 24, 1957). "Studio-Made Pictures Favored Anew; Robert Keith Star in 'Lineup'".
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with the two men to a civilization they have only experienced via
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and more contemporaneously the 1956 science fiction film
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Theatrical release poster
Frank Tuttle
Ray Buffum
Prescott Chaplin
George C. Bertholon
Albert J. Cohen
Alan Ladd
Jeff Richards
Venetia Stevenson
John Smith
Alan Napier
Diane Jergens
June Blair
John F. Seitz
Roland Gross
Raoul Kraushaar
Dave Kahn
Jaguar Productions
Warner Bros.
independently made
black-and-white
castaways
melodrama
George C. Bertholon
Albert J. Cohen
Alan Ladd
Frank Tuttle
Warner Bros.
Jeff Richards

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