Directed by Roger Corman and written by Robert Hill (Confessions of an Opium Eater) and Victor Stoloff, this finds brothers Jim (Don Durant) and Chris (Bill Cord) running from a murder charge to the Sulu Sea, where they’re shipwrecked on — you know it — a shark-infested reef. They’re rescued by an all-female society of pearl divers. The younger women enjoy them being there but Queen Pua (Jeanne Gearson) wats them gone.

Chris falls in love with Mahia (Lisa Montell) while Jim steals the pearls. His brother has to decide if he can save his new lover or his brother and, well, the shark eats well.

American-International Pictures added the She Gods part of the title, which is a good move on their part. It was made with one shark and plenty of stock footage. This played double features with Night of the Blood Beast.

This was filmed at the Coco Palms Resort where Elvis shot Blue Hawaii. The hotel used to sell weddings based on the end of that movie where Elvis finally settles down. Miss Sadie Thompson was made there as well with the Chapel in the Palm built just for that movie. Grace Buscher, the manager of the hotel, would use this chapel to invent the Hawaiian destination wedding.

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