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Auction History Result 9d647 PAGAN ISLAND 1sh '61 Barry Mahon directed, wild artwork of native girls worshipping idol! Date Sold 12/22/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Pagan Island, the 1961 Barry Mahon Polynesian tropical island action adventure sexploitation melodrama ("Shipwrecked!"; "One man alone with 30 beautiful native girls!"; about a man shipwrecked on a Polynesian island where they worship a strange sea god statue, and they hate him because he is a "white man", but he wins them over, until he goes after the one girl he can't have, the one promised to the sea god) starring Eddie Dew (billed as "Ed Dew"), Nani Maka, Trine Hovelsrud, Yda Alvarez, and Barbara Bordeaux. Note that the girls in this movie are supposed to be Polynesian, but they in no way appear to be, likely because they were actually models hired by famed pin-up photographer Bunny Yeager! That makes the central plot of the "natives" hating the shipwrecked man because he is "white" ludicrous, because they all look the same! Note that director Barry Mahon had a fascinating life that could fill several movies! He was an American pilot for England in World War II and he was shot down and put in a POW camp, and he escaped and was the basis for the Steve McQueen character in the movie "The Great Escape" (Mahon also loved motorcycles). He became Errol Flynn's pilot and later Errol Flynn's manager. He then made many sexploitation "nudie cuties" movies in the 1950s and 1960s, but at the end of his career, he made a drastic shift, and made several children's movies (perhaps he found religion?). You can click on his name for a more complete version of this biography of his life. If anyone knows more about this movie or Mahon's drastic career changes, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There are a few tape repairs on the back of the poster. There is some writing on the back of the poster that bleeds through to the front in the title at lower left. Learn More about condition grades 
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