This
early Monte Hellman film, shot in the Phillippines, is a crackerjack potboiler
filled with some very odd subtext involving sexual ambivalence and
preoccupations with death, in some ways a low-budget trial run for the much
grander and portentous The Passenger (1975) by Antonioni, which also stars Jack
Nicholson. Dewey Martin is an American
who gets mixed up with diamond thieves and an apparent thrill-killer (a young
Nicholson), all of whom end up in a small plane together that crashes on an
island overrun with bandits and rebel guerrillas. Betrayal, murder and rape ensue as the
unlikely band struggles to reach safety, ideally with as many of the diamonds
instact as possible.
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