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L'île du bout du monde (1959)
can there really be no comments about this film already??
Probably one of the lowest budgets ever seen till Reservoir Dogs, since only five people appear, with one location--the island--and two props--a life boat and an M1 carbine.
A sort of "onanist" fantasy essentially, where one virile man is marooned with three desirable women. However, one of the three is not all that pleased about having to share him with the other two.
The jealous one, Magali Noel, is the principal in an underwater nude scene incomprehensible in a movie from 1959 Bear in mind too: I was watching it on free-to-air TV in the mid sixties, albeit late at night. Evidently the censor had gone to bed early.
Anyone who knows where to come by a copy is invited to tell me.
As to similar viewing I can only think of the work of Henry Clouzot "The Wages of Fear", "Les Heroes sont Fatigue" (a.k.a. "The Heroes and the Sinners"), with Yves Montand as the sweating, stranded French expatriate loser...and other 50's French movies glimpsed similarly on late night television but not long enough to cite. Whether there was ever a name given to the genre I would be curious to hear.