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| Marta Kristen, Don Marshall & Ena Hartman in TERMINAL ISLAND Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 |
For an exploitation flick that seems to make itself up as it goes, TERMINAL ISLAND begins creatively enough, much like the same years' WESTWORLD with random interviews about the title location...
In this case, based on the actual California death penalty being overturned (making The Manson Family eligible for parole soon after), random people are asked what they think of the prison island alternative, like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK after while based on the infamous Devil's Island, where murderous convicts are left to their own devices...
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Ena Hartman in TERMINAL ISLAND
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Providing a terrifically intense/lovely lead actress in DAN AUGUST black secretary Ena Hartman, with enough blaxploitation/woman-in-prison Pam Grier-esque gusto to completely rule her own feature...
But a real life injury curbed her starring role... plus there are more men on the island, including a monotone, horribly misplaced Tom Selleck as a passive doctor and his future MAGNUM PI chopper pilot Roger E. Mosely, better suited as one of the bullying alpha-males using the women like sexual slaves...
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| Marta Kristen in TERMINAL ISLAND |
But by the time this urgent plot-line develops, providing Hartman a dilemma she must overcome, quickly, she and other starlets... including spacey brunette Barbara Leigh and intense blondes Phyllis Davis and scene-stealer Marta Kristen (in the Roberta Collins-style tough girl role)... are rescued by black gentleman Don Marshall, leading into what what feels like another movie altogether...
Two actually, within two separate camps: the bad and the good, and neither really connect... although former Roger Corman collaborator Stephanie Rothman directs in an intense enough manner so that the survival sequences are partially intriguing: making TERMINAL ISLAND several half-decent islands to themselves — despite ultimately becoming atoll on the audience.
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| Marta Kristen and Ena Hartman in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Marta Kristen and Ena Hartman in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Barbara Leigh in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Roger E. Mosely in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Tom Selleck in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Roger E. Mosely in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Marta Kristen in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Marta Kristen, Phyllis Davis and Do Marshall in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Don Marshall in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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| Tom Selleck in TERMINAL ISLAND |
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Chris Allen in TERMINAL ISLAND
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