When the Girls Take Over

When the Girls Take Over
When the Girls Take Over
	Arthur E. Arling
Music by	Ben Oakland; Howard Jackson (conductor)
Production; company	Trans-Oceanic Productions
Distributed by	Parade Releasing Organization
Release date	May 1962
Running time	79 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

When the Girls Take Over is an American men's adventure comedy film produced and directed by Russell Hayden and starring Marvin Miller, Jackie Coogan, and Robert Lowery. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, it was filmed in Puerto Rico in 1960 under the working title Caribe and released in 1962.^[1] The film was shot in color, but the public domain copy is in black and white.

Plot

The film begins with shots of the

United Nations Headquarters in New York City as a narrator quotes Genesis Chapter 11 about the Tower of Babel. The scene switches inside the UN with the delegate from the Republic of Hondo Rico being interrupted by Nikita Khrushchev recreating his shoe-banging incident

. The Hondo Rican delegate revenges himself by stalking Khrushchev to an empty hallway and knocking him out with a shoe.

The easy-going Republic of Hondo Rico is a former French colony in the Caribbean menaced by an insurgency led by a Fidel Castro type bearded revolutionary general named Maximo Toro (translation: a lot of bull). The main impediment to Maximo's plan is lack of money and weapons.

The legal regime of Hondo Rico also faces a lack of wealth with

sugar cane by-products. The only interested party is wealthy Texan millionaire Axel "Longhorn" Gates. During the trade fair Henri hires a pair of Americans Steve and Stoney to fly some cargo and diving gear down to Hondo Rico. Steve and Stoney have a CLASS (Caribbean Land And Sea Service) import-export business consisting of a decrepit Catalina flying boat

named "Caribe" and a local mechanic named Razmo.

Back in Hondo Rico, when Maximo is not intimidating his guerilla band (Maximo has the only functioning weapon) he enjoys the company of the Henri's daughter Francoise as his lover. Maximo schemes a plan where he gets word to Henri that he has kidnapped Francoise and will kill her unless he delivers several crates of government rifles (actually children's versions of

drill rifles

). Henri and Toussaint beat the slow flying Catalina back to Hondo Rico and steal several crates of weapons from the Hondo Rican army. Taking the weapons by boat, they panic when they arrive at Maximo's basecamp dumping the crates into the ocean just offshore of the guerilla base.

Knowing the two American soldiers of fortune have diving gear, he enlists their aide to recover the weapons. In the meantime, Longhorn Gates has arrived in the nation and decides to recruit every beautiful woman on the island to launch a sexy assault on Maximo's guerillas.

Cast

Marvin Miller ... Henri Degiere
Robert Lowery ... Maximo Toro
Jackie Coogan ... Captain Toussaint
James Ellison ... Axel 'Longhorn' Gates
Ingeborg Kjeldsen ... Francoise Degiere
Jeffrey Stone ... Steve Harding
Don Dorrell ... Stoney Jackson
Tommy Cook ... Razmo
True Ellison ... Melesa
Gabriel Dell ... "Major" Henderson
Paul Bailey ... Clutch
Luis de Tejada ... Jeep Driver
Yanka Mann ... Chiquita
Fabiola Brown ... Bonita

References

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External links

When the Girls Take Over at
IMDb

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