Friday, Jul. 05, 1963

Greek Travesty

Island of Love is a big-time operator's manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding hands and smooching, and, lest the point be lost, there are shots of boatloads of mattresses at dockside and peroxide doxies glimpsed backside.

It is hard to believe that this tasteless gaffe-riot is Producer-Director Morton DaCosta's third picture. But the other two were taken from stage successes Auntie Maine and The Music Man-- and on those he had outside help.

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