I first saw this movie on WBBM TV Chicago back in the early eighties, the same station on which I first saw `Melody'. In my review of that film I said that WBBM had a rather poor film library and this movie is the best proof. Yes it is a bad film. The premise is that Gardner McKay makes a bet with Fred Clark that he could beat Clark sailing to Tahiti with an All Girl crew. Of course he didn't bother looking for girls who know anything about sailing he went for the babe factor. It's the classic male fantasy. He even had individual scenes with just about every girl where it seems as if they were going to hook up but didn't. The one girl left out was Jimsy, who I believe was a castaway and who looked like she was about 17. She looked like a very young Bo Derek, but it isn't Bo who was 12 at the time. In the end they ended up together anyway because the other girls went on to do something else. One went on to write a book I believe, the other was a local Tahitian Princess and I believe Diane McBain, one of my childhood crush, turned out to be a fugitive from the law. The Script was pretty lame, the direction was amateurish and the acting was so campy that it made Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello look like Tracey and Hepburn. The only highlight was Fred Clark basically doing the standard Fred Clark role, the rich, sneaky, somewhat pompous, yet funny and lovable villain. Despite all that I still have fondness for it. Or maybe it just brings back the memory of being young and carefree and living in my parents' basement and staying up all night to watch forgotten films instead of worrying about career, family and mortgages like I do now. Two more things: I believe it was shown either on TMC or AMC sometime ago, I remember some host talking about how this was Gardner McKay's only leading role in a movie, I know he was in the `Pleasure Seekers' but in a supporting role. The other thing is I wonder whatever happened to Mary O'Brien who played Jimsy? She did look a lot like Bo Derek.
