This picture was release on February 15 1980 starring Adrienne Barbeau as Beverly McGraw, Bill Daly as Charles and Howard Duff as AJ. Morgan. Beverly McGraw, an advertising exec meets Billy Colorado, a football player, Charles, a minister meets Crystal Kramer, a store clerk and her mother Ida, Robert Murphy, a detective following Beverly, is having trouble avoiding falling for her. Cheryl and Jimmy, staff at the resort assist with the matchmaking activities of their aunt Madge, the operator of the Love Island Resort I bought this because of Adrienne Barbeau hoping to see her in a swimsuit and I was disappointed. This picture was nothing more of a spin-off from the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Sure scenery was good and drama wasn't bad but I'm getting tired of love and matching shows. Therefore with the disappointment of Adrienne and the lack of action I'm giving this movie just 4 weasel stars.
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garyldibert5 July 2008
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With Janis Paige as Madge (sounds like you're soaking in Palmolive), an enigmatic person much like Ricardo Montalban was on Fantasy Island. This time she would have a tropical crew as well who she doted over in a motherly way. This was Dominique Dunne and Chris Knight (better known as Peter Brady off The Brady Bunch).
In one scene, she stands, looking off into the distance and a youngster approaches behind her. She never looks around but raises her arm to wrap it around the young one's shoulders. Oooh, how enigmatic!
Involved were an assortment of wayward vacationers, unhappy at love:
Lisa Hartman, a grocer cashier whose car was shot up in a hold up, her mother Dodie Goodman.
Adrienne Barbeau, who was the mistress of Howard Duff, and Rick Hurst, who was hired by Duff to keep an eye on Barbeau. Or was Bill Daily the agent? Oh well, it didn't matter.
And Bob Seagren.
Couples go in and out, finally pairing up with their intendeds. Seagren was written off real quick. Daily and Hurst went back and forth to Barbeau, Hartman and Goodman, until the final evening and the surprise arrival, reuniting long lost lovers.
Cheesy with the Roarke bit applied to Paige and had the most awful singing throughout it. Horrible man kept singing "who will be the one?" in a latino style. It was terrible.
Clearly this was a pilot that wasn't picked up. Later on, however, there would be "Aloha Paradise" with Debbie Reynolds, again Love Boat on land. This one would be a very short lived series.
I didn't recall Love Island being a Valentine special. It would mainly be fun to see again simply for the eighties names and faces.
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mark.waltz1 July 2023The overwrought sickeningly bad theme song is bad enough, almost overshadowed by a ridiculous teleplay that gives a talented cast perhaps the worst material they've ever been stuck with. The presence of Janis Paige should have been magical as a female Captain Steubing/Mr. Roarke, but she's not lucky with her Valentine's Day guests. A little bit of Dody Goodman goes a long way and as a squalky meddling mama, she's on far too much and not only meddling in her daughter's life, but everybody else's as well. Dominique Dunne as Paige's niece is there to learn the tricks of her aunt's trade which reveals the use of some white magic and seemingly drugged chocolate.
TV sitcom stars abound with buxom Adrienne Barbeau, bespeckled Bill Daley (another one where a little goes a long way) and Christopher Knight, as well as Lisa Hartman, Howard Duff and Rick Hurst. Every time you think you've heard the last of the theme song, it pops up again to leave the viewer cringing. No way could this have survived past a premiere episode as a series, with the individual stories far too forced and a good percentage of the characters people I wouldn't be interested in knowing. Broadway and film vet Paige (recently celebrating her hundredth birthday) deserved much better.