Battle Of Blood Island (1960)

Two GIs (Richard Devon,  Ron Kennedy) are the sole survivors of a beach landing massacre by the Japanese on a desert island in the South Pacific. Based on a short story by Philip Roth (PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT) and adapted for the screen and directed by Joel Rapp. This shoestring budget film was part of producer Roger Corman's "Puerto Rican" trilogy which consisted of three low budget movies shot simultaneously back to back. The other two were CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA and LAST WOMAN ON EARTH. It's an adequate film with an all too familiar plot. It's sort of like HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON but with two men. Devon isn't bad at all but Kennedy is terrible. What holds the film together is the strong and probably unintentional homoerotic undercurrent between the two men which is off the charts! Devon is the butch one and Kennedy is the "femme" (with slight rewriting the character could have been female) and they become a couple. Kennedy tells Devon after sampling his cooking that he would make someone a wonderful wife and after they adopt a mynah bird,  Kennedy says he is part of "our family". One one of them leaves the other,  the other attempts suicide.