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[BELL CLANGS]

The plane! The plane!

Good morning, Tattoo.

I said good morning.

Oh, good morning, boss.

Uh, what are you reading that is so totally consuming?

The stock market report.

Ah. Thinking of joining

the world of high finance, are you?

I already did, boss.

Thanks to my cousin, Hugo.

He’s a stockbroker now.

Oh, and, um, what stock, pray tell,

did cousin Hugo advise you to invest in?

Top Industries.

What? Top Industries.

Top Industries?

I don’t think I recall that name, Top Industries.

It’s a new company. It’s doing real good.

My cousin Hugo said I will double my money in two days.

Forgive my skepticism, Tattoo,

but, uh, cousin Hugo has been known to exaggerate.

Not this time, boss.

How do you know?

Because if my cousin Hugo was exaggerating,

he would have said that I would double my money in one day.

Uh, let’s go.

[♪♪]

Smiles, everyone, smiles.

[PLAYING HAWAIIAN MUSIC]

Electricians mate Barney Shaw, U.S. Navy.

TATTOO: He looks like a nice guy.

I bet I know what a sailor’s fantasy is.

ROARKE: Perhaps. But Mr. Shaw isn’t the typical all-style sailor.

He was aboard a nuclear submarine

that just completed a record-breaking

two-year underwater endurance test.

You mean he didn’t see a woman for two years?

What did he do to kill the time?

Seaman Shaw did a great deal of reading

in his off-duty hours.

His area of special study

was the ancient myths of the sea.

TATTOO: I don’t follow you, boss.

He became expert in all the legends

about islands of lost women.

Islands of lost women?

He first discovered the concept in the travels Ulysses.

Then found variations on the same theme

in the Germanic saga of the Lauralie.

It’s his fantasy now to find out

if such an island tribe of women would exist today.

Is that really possible, boss?

Take a good look, Tattoo.

You won’t see many men like him.

Who is he, boss?

A long time ago, a close and good friend.

His name is Singapore Eddie Malone

and when I knew him he was considered

one of the top professional adventurers in the world.

Oh, he searched for treasure in the Caribbean,

looked for the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas,

traveled down the Amazon in a canoe...

I didn’t know people still do things like that.

They rarely do, Tattoo.

Even Mr. Malone doesn’t anymore.

In recent years, he’s made his living by giving lectures.

TATTOO: Lectures? What kind of lectures?

ROARKE: About his adventures, of course.

The most popular these days is...

"I Search for Bigfoot."

He appears in men’s clubs, junior high schools,

wherever they will pay his $50 fee.

Fifty dollars?

How can he afford a fantasy?

Take heart, my mercenary friend.

Mr. Malone didn’t come here for a fantasy.

He thinks he’s here to give a series

of his Bigfoot lectures.

But, boss, if he’s here for somebody else’s fantasy,

why do they want him?

It has something to do with Bigfoot?

ROARKE: Perhaps, Tattoo, perhaps.

My dear guests, I am Mr. Roarke, your host.

Welcome to Fantasy Island.

[♪♪]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Yes. Come in.

[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]

Ah, Mr. Shaw. Do come in.

Listen, you can come right out and say it, Mr. Roarke.

I know you believe that I’m crazed to think

that an island of... of lost women really exists.

Indeed.

Perhaps your fantasy

is more obtainable than you imagine.

It is? Yes.

Sit down, won’t you?

In addition to all the famous myths

down through history,

there is a little known legend

about such a civilization on a nearby island.

Supposedly, they are descendants of a Greek ship,

which was wrecked on the island

over two 2000 years ago.

Of course, no one knows if it’s true or not.

Surrounded by, uh...

treacherous reefs

and, uh, unscalable cliffs,

only one outsider

has ever been reported there.

A bush pilot who crashed on the island

over 25 years ago.

Undoubtedly driven mad by loneliness

and privation or...

Uh, island of beautiful women.

Uh, whatever.

He resisted all attempts to rescue him.

If it was because of the women,

I mean, who could blame him?

When do I leave?

Well, we could drop you on the island

by parachute this afternoon.

Oh, uh...

Mr. Shaw, I must warn you, however,

that island is uncharted.

I have no powers there

and I’ll be

unable to guarantee your safety.

You could be risking your life.

But what a way to go.

Mr. Roarke,

I’ll be ready to leave this afternoon.

Very well, Mr. Shaw.

EDDIE: The film you’re about to see

I shot myself two years ago

in the northern reaches of...

Uh, you missed the best stuff. It’s fantastic.

EDDIE: Ladies and gentlemen, Bigfoot.

[PROJECTOR WHIRRING]

Now, here’s where we first spot him.

See?

Now he sees us.

And then...

he’s gone.

Lights.

Not a man, not an ape.

What is he then?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

you tell me.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

[SIGHS]

Hello, Eddie. I’m sorry I’m late.

Oh, I-- You didn’t catch the show, huh?

No, I’m afraid not.

I came, in fact, just in time

to see that film of a man

running around in a monkey suit.

Boss, what are you talking about?

That was Bigfoot.

Well, Singapore shot the film himself.

Of that I have no doubt.

You calling me a fraud, old chum?

Well, I never could fool you, could I?

You mean it was a man in a monkey suit?

Um, Tattoo, I found out a long time ago

the rouges won’t pay 50 bucks a night

to look at a plaster footprint.

They wanna see the whole hairy beast in action.

Well, if that’s what they want...

that’s what Singapore Eddie’ll show ’em.

What if you could show them

the real thing, Eddie?

All right. I’ll bite.

What are you talking about?

I am considering the fulfillment of a fantasy

which would allow an expedition to travel

to the far side of the island.

The terrain there is mostly jungle, very rugged.

There are some eerie mountains.

There are no roads.

But, uh, native folklore,

going back hundreds of years,

tells us of a giant,

hairy man-like beast that roams the mountains.

Bigfoot.

[LAUGHS]

Well, why not?

He’s been spotted in most other parts of the world.

What makes you think this expedition

would be any more successful than any of the others?

Frankly, I don’t know. I’m a layman.

The idea seems possible to me,

but before I can allow others to risk their lives,

I want you to tell me if you think it has a chance.

What I do know is that the plan outlined to me

is bizarre, dangerous

and, as far as I can find out,

nothing like it has ever been tried before.

And if I like the plan?

ROARKE: I’ll arrange for the fantasy to start.

And, um, you can become

part of the expedition, if you wish.

What have I got to lose?

Nothing, Eddie.

BARNEY: Are you sure this is the only way

to get to the Island of the Lost Women, Mr. Roarke?

ROARKE: Positive, Mr. Shaw.

And I did get the impression you were in a hurry.

BARNEY: Well, here I go.

[GRUNTS]

[LAUGHTER]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Hmm.

Grab them!

[SCREAMING]

No, wait.

Please.

Well, we’ll take her back to camp.

Geronimo!

Come on.

[BOTH PANTING]

I think we’re safe here.

What manner of man are you?

Oh, just a guy who wanted to help out.

I mean...

You were in for a bad time.

But, hey, that’s...

that’s the plane that Mr. Roarke showed me.

You know about such machines?

I just dropped out of one like it few minutes ago.

Are you a birdman?

Huh? Like the first birdman

who came from the sky many years ago?

He said he was a god.

Are you a god too?

Me? Uh, what are the pros and cons?

Well, if you were,

then I and all the women of my city

would be your servants.

Anything would be yours for the taking.

It’s the tradition.

Really? You?

Mm-hmm.

And all the girls of the city wou--

And the girls that you were with before and...

[SCOFFS] Those and many, many more.

Well, I guess us birdmen

are a very special lot all right, yes.

Oh, then command me, my lord.

Well, I think it’s time

that you, uh, led me to my worshippers.

Oh. [LAUGHS] Thank you.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. BOTH: Good afternoon.

Professor Smith Myles, may I introduce Mr. Eddie Malone.

Professor.

It’s a pleasure to meet you.

Ah, the pleasure is all mine.

Oh, gentlemen, won’t you sit down?

Thank you.

I’ve already explained to Mr. Malone

why you have come to Fantasy Island, Professor.

PROFESSOR: My late father postulated several theories

on the creature known as Bigfoot, Mr. Malone.

For our expedition to be a success,

it is necessary that three of these theories be correct.

The first, of course, is that Bigfoot actually exists.

The second and the most important,

the reason my father

would write a book on the creature

is that he believed

that Bigfoot might well be

the missing link

between ape and man.

[CHUCKLES]

That’s-- That’s very interesting.

PROFESSOR: The third and perhaps the most crucial

deals with the reasons why

no one has ever been able to capture Bigfoot.

Which is?

Which is...

that he always knew he was being hunted.

He sensed the aggression of the hunter

with an instinct that we call ESP.

Uh, wait a minute.

Why wouldn’t that explain it?

He’s been hunted by expert huntsmen in the world,

including yourself, Mr. Malone.

ESP?

And if, indeed, Bigfoot is the missing link,

would it be so strange that he had ESP?

It has been well-documented that some

of the most primitive people have it.

That natives of Bali, for instance.

Aborigines in Australia.

I’ve seen them using ESP

practically like a telephone.

Then you accept the possibility?

[SIGHS]

Well, if Bigfoot has ESP,

how do we catch him? We don’t catch him.

We let him catch us...

with this.

Since earliest caveman,

men have worshipped birds, Mr. Malone,

either real or imaginary, such as this one.

It’s a glider.

PROFESSOR: The Sweitzer 233 to be exact.

And if what Mr. Roarke tells me is correct,

that is the model of the aircraft

with which you won three national championships.

Yes, that’s right.

Go on.

The glider will be equipped with this.

Infrared body heat sensing device.

These have been used on a Bigfoot before.

Yes and very successfully.

But in these cases, before the airplane

came close enough to the ground to land,

the engine noise scared away the creature.

We make contact. And what then?

We change course.

To see if he follows us. That is correct.

And if he does...

We land and let him come to us.

But if he has ESP, won’t he know

that we’re inside the plane waiting for him?

No, no, I don’t think he will.

I’m counting on his curiosity

to overcome his natural instincts.

You know, it’s so simple,

I wonder why somebody hasn’t thought of it before.

Then you think it will work?

I don’t know.

But I think you’d be a damn fool not to let us try.

[WOMEN EXCLAIMING]

Who is he, Niobe?

A birdman. He saved me from them.

He has powers beyond belief.

Really?

I’m taking him to the queen now.

The queen. Ahem.

QUEEN: What is the crime?

Majesty, this keeper of the flames

went to pick berries

and allowed the cooking fires to go out.

That is very serious.

The fires must be rekindled

before your sisters can cook their food.

I just wanted to see a man, Majesty.

The one who they say will be Harvest King this year.

So you forgot your duties for that.

The punishment must be severe.

NIOBE: Majesty, Majesty.

QUEEN: Niobe. Majesty.

Another birdman has flown among us.

Him?

I must think on this.

Carry out the sentencing.

Oh, what’s wrong with her?

She allowed the fires in her charge to go out.

It requires much work to rekindle them.

Oh, no, not really. Look.

Try-- Try this. Look.

[WOMEN EXCLAIMING] [BARNEY LAUGHS]

You see, Majesty, he is indeed a god.

And he shall be treated as such.

He shall be our Harvest King for this year.

[WOMEN EXCLAIMING]

Oh, well. QUEEN: He shall be bathed,

perfumed, dressed like a god.

Then he will choose your brides.

Brides?

That’s with a "S", plural?

Wha-- How many do I get?

That is for you to say.

Oh. QUEEN: Prepare him.

Come, lord. I’ll come.

He is no more a god...

than the first birdman was.

PROFESSOR: No one can say when it all began.

That first tick of the time clock

for evolutionary man.

Some say two million years ago

and that seems like a long time.

Long enough for man to climb

from his barest primitive beginnings

to the most ruthless achievements in today’s world.

What special element made him resist violence at all costs

even to the point of not returning ours

even to the point that he fled

to the most remote corners of this earth.

If Bigfoot is the missing link

and we can find out what this special element is,

we may be rewriting the entire history of mankind

and then perhaps, more important,

its future.

Ah. There it is.

Oh, I dreamed about this for so long.

ROARKE: Professor. Eddie.

Morning. Well, here we are.

The plane has been outfitted to your exact specifications,

Professor Smith Myles. Wonderful.

All that remains now is for you to decide

when you want your first flight.

Thank you. I’ll be ready first thing in the morning.

Very well. And I am sure

Mr. Malone will be too.

A remarkable lady.

Yeah, she’s remarkable, all right.

Little nuts, maybe, but remarkable.

QUEEN: These girls are candidates for your brides,

Harvest King.

Decisions, decisions.

Oh, I hope there’s no hard feelings, girls.

Girls, no hard feelings.

You know, if you don’t get picked,

remember, it’s luck of the draw. That’s all.

Are you? Huh?

You? Oh. Oh...

Oh, you. Oh, uh, her too.

[GIGGLES]

Don’t wanna break up the set.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, and definitely, definitely her.

And her too.

Oh...

Uh, how many is that?

What does it matter?

Right. Right.

Yes. Why play favorites?

I’ll take them all. [LAUGHTER]

Ladies, do your duty.

[GIGGLES]

Must you dedicate so much time

to that ticket tape machine, Tattoo?

Look, boss, look.

Top Industries is up points.

Indeed.

Well, congratulations, my friend.

Perhaps this might be the proper time

to take your profits and sell.

No way, boss.

I wanna buy 50 shares more.

Remember one thing, my friend.

Many a stock market player

has been wiped out because of greed.

No sweat, boss.

My cousin Hugo will tell me when to sell.

Yes. That’s what I’m afraid of.

[LAUGHTER]

Are you happy, my lord?

Oh. Are you kidding? Like a kid in a candy store.

[LAUGHTER]

Happy girls? WOMEN: Oh. Yes.

What’s happening out there?

WOMAN: It’s for you, lord.

Oh, that’s some new art? Huh?

No, my lord. It’s your funeral pyre.

My funeral pyre? I’m not dead yet.

WOMAN: You will be when the flames hit you.

What flames? What? What are you talking about?

Your death, Lord. It’s the tradition.

BARNEY: Tradition?

This is it. Gonna cut us loose.

Unless you changed your mind.

Not a chance, Mr. Malone.

Better get that machine of yours working.

This is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

PROFESSOR: The trick is, Mr. Malone, to find that needle.

EDDIE: There is one thing about you, professor,

when you make up your mind you go all the way.

PROFESSOR: It’s the only way to fly, Mr. Malone.

The only way.

[MACHINE BLEEPING]

No, no, it’s not big enough.

We’ve been up two hours. I think we better turn back.

Hey, there’s always tomorrow, you know?

[MACHINE BLEEPING]

[MACHINE BLEEPING FASTER]

It could be.

It’d be twice the size of a man.

Let’s change course and see if it follows us.

He’s following us.

He’s still coming.

Well, better pick a spot.

What do you mean?

If our furry friend is so anxious to meet us,

I think we ought to accommodate him.

We’re going in.

Hang on, professor.

PROFESSOR: There goes the wing! Watch out!

EDDIE: Just keep your head down.

All right. Yeah. We better get ready.

What’s that?

That’s the tranquilizer gun.

There’s enough in that dart

to stop a 1000-pound animal.

No, no. You stay there.

No point in both of us being out here.

[MACHINE BEEPING]

[BEEPING FASTER]

Lord, your brides wait to give you pleasure.

Forget it.

My heart isn’t in it.

Look, if you’ll help me get away from here,

we can get the radio in that biplane to work.

The queen would make us suffer terribly

if we defy her.

What’s the matter with that woman anyway?

Is she responsible for keeping the men away from here.

NIOBE: Oh, no.

Long ago, the women left

because the men wouldn’t give up fighting.

Now, each year, one man is chosen

to be Harvest King so our race will survive.

If something like this happened in old Greece

a long time ago, I’m not sure it worked then either.

It’s said that Queen Delphia fell in love

with the first birdman and wanted to change things.

But after his son was born,

the other men came and found the birdman

and killed him out of jealousy.

Now she’s very bitter.

Oh, terrific.

I understand if you’re afraid to help,

but I’m getting out. I’m gonna get that radio.

Wait. I know a way out. What?

It’s not here.

Is this what you seek?

No, no!

No! That woman will be mine.

I do not share her with you.

I do not share her with anyone.

Now, look, we got more serious problems

than fighting each other right now.

So I mean it. Right. Now I mean it.

If she has no objections.

I sure don’t.

No, no objections.

We’re in the same fix, fella. Right?

We’re caught in the middle. None of us can win.

What do you mean?

BARNEY: If you take her to the men,

you know what they’ll do. If we go to the women,

that queen will probably cremate us all.

The way I figure it, it’s the four of us

against everybody else on this island.

Did you...?

Did you find that helmet and goggles

on this plane too?

They were my father’s.

Are you...? You are the son?

You are the son of Queen Delphia and the Birdman?

Yes.

She sent me to live with the men when I was very young.

It’s the, uh, tradition.

[GASPS]

I just got an idea.

See if you can get your men to come to the city tonight.

We might solve this whole thing.

GUARD: There they are, My Majesty.

BARNEY: No, no! Please just go!

Go on. Get out of the way.

Go on. Go! Go on!

WOMAN: Please. Let him go.

Please go. Leave him.

These are the ones we want.

Bring them.

Maybe he lost us.

We’ve been waiting here all day.

Listen.

Everything’s gone quiet.

[GUN COCKS]

[ROARS] Mr. Malone!

[GUNSHOT]

No, no.

Oh, we’ve frightened him.

We’ve frightened him terribly.

We’ve frightened him?

What do you think he did to me?

Good lord, woman, do you realize

we just came face-to-face with Bigfoot?

He does exist.

Well, of course he does, Mr. Malone.

We presumed that when we started off on this venture.

But we can’t stand here. We have to go after him.

You are the most-- Doesn’t anything faze you?

We are not going after him. Not in the dark.

But he’ll get away. No, he won’t.

I hit him with the dart.

From the sound of him, he’ll get a couple hundred yards

and when he drops he’ll be out for at least 12 hours.

And if he doesn’t drop?

Well, then, my dear professor,

we will just have blown the biggest

anthropological discovery of the century.

NIOBE: Lord, I love you.

BARNEY: I love you too.

It’s not going to get us out of this.

My lord, I’m sorry.

Are you really?

Start the fire.

NIOBE: The men are here.

But there are so few of them.

It’s okay. I wasn’t counting on numbers to solve this.

Shall we seize them, Majesty?

BARNEY: No! No! No!

It’s over. You understand?

You, queen, keep your mouth shut till I’m finished.

How dare you?

Lady, I dare, ’cause you had things

fowled up long enough.

And that goes for you guys too.

I’ve done some growing up since I got here.

When I first arrived,

I thought a lot of girls would be-- Would be fun.

Like a kid who figures if one scoop of ice cream is good,

then 10 gallons must be-- Ha! --must be fantastic.

Well, love...love,

it doesn’t, uh, doesn’t work that way.

We’re just a bunch of men and women until we fall in love

and then... then, well...

That’s when a wonderful thing happens

and that’s when we become more important

to some one guy or girl

than anybody else in the world.

And if you’re gonna grow up, that’s when you learn

that you can’t get anything from a hundred women

that you can’t get from...

[SIGHS]

Uh...

one woman who loves you. I mean...

We don’t need that kind of love here.

Who are you kidding?

I mean, you loved the first Birdman

and you love his son, don’t you?

So why’d you pick me to be Harvest King?

Wasn’t it because you knew

your son was in line for it

and you wanted to save him as long as you could?

Try living together as human beings.

People who live

and love and care about one another.

I mean, that’s how it was meant to be.

Go on.

Go to each other.

Love each other.

That’s what it’s all about.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[LAUGHTER]

What time is it?

A little before 6.

I got some coffee ready.

[YAWNING] Thank you.

What’s that?

.30-06.

That ought to stop our friend.

But why? If he’s still down with tranquilizers,

we’ll have what we need with photographs

and hair and tissue samples.

Well, I’m glad that’s all you need.

I will do everything I can to help you get it.

But the only tissue sample I’m interested in

is the head of that hairy beast.

You promised me no guns!

You promised me you wouldn’t hurt him!

Didn’t anything about my father’s theories matter?

What, about the missing link? About Bigfoot having

some magical element that’ll save the world?

That sounds nice, but doesn’t make sense.

You know, you, your father, you live in some...

never-never world of too many years ago.

And that’s very nice for you.

The rest of us have to live in the real world.

And in my world, it’s been a tearing, grinding one.

A guy like me rarely gets another chance.

Well, I’ve got one and I’m gonna take it.

And the hell of it is, that if I thought there were

one chance you were right,

I’d toss this thing in the bushes.

Not for mankind and not for the world,

because I don’t give a damn about that.

But because of you.

Because you still believe in things

that I can’t anymore.

[♪♪]

It’s gotta be a foot and a half long.

[♪♪]

Must’ve been stumbling around pretty good.

Mr. Malone!

Mr. Malone!

Mr. Malone!

[ROARS]

[YELLS]

[ROARS]

Here’s your magic element.

He’s trying to bash our skulls in.

He’s not trying to hurt us.

Can’t you feel that? He’s trying to warn us.

Can’t you feel it?

He just wants us to go away.

Oh.

[BIGFOOT ROARING]

I’ll use this if you go any further.

The load in that thing’ll kill me.

Not close enough, professor.

There’s a whole tribe of them.

What’s the matter with you?

Can’t you see they don’t want to defend themselves?

They outweigh us by hundreds of pounds

and they still rather run away

than defend their own home.

Doesn’t make any difference, professor.

When we go back and tell the world what’s here,

they’ll all be dead in a matter of months.

What do you mean? You think you can stop

people that are looking to make millions

once it’s known it exists?

This whole island’ll turn

into a three-ring circus.

Then the Bigfeet that aren’t just shot

will die of germs they never even knew existed.

All I want is my piece of the action now.

[ROARS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

He saved my life.

I tried to kill him and he saved my life.

What if we go back

and don’t tell the world what we found here?

That Bigfoot really exists.

You’d be throwing away all your father worked for,

everything you’ve worked for all these years.

No, no, I don’t think so.

Because I think we found what my father was after.

What he thought would change the world.

And the funny thing is,

it’s been within our reach all along.

Even after you hurt him,

he cared more for you

than he did for himself.

[ROARS]

I’m sorry that your search of Bigfoot was in vain.

Perhaps in the future.

Yes, well, the future is something we’re working on.

We thought we’d start in Turkey.

Turkey?

Mm-hm. Mr. Malone has plans

to find Noah’s Ark.

I’ve contacted my university

and they’ve agreed to finance the expedition.

Oh, marvelous. Congratulations, Eddie.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye, Tattoo. Goodbye.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

EDDIE: Come on, professor.

Well, boss, maybe they didn’t find Bigfoot,

but your friend is a different man

from the time he came here.

He’s on top again.

But why do I get the feeling

that it was all your fantasy, boss?

Goodbye, Mr. Roarke. Thanks for everything.

I am so glad everything turned out so well for you, Mr. Shaw.

And congratulations to you, Mrs. Shaw,

on your first excursion into the outside world.

Goodbye. BARNEY: Goodbye.

You know what I think, boss?

About what?

I think you knew all the time

about the Island of Lost Women and the problem.

You were just waiting for the right guy

with the right fantasy

so you could help them solve it.

Really?

Interesting theory.

Oh, um, by the way, tell me,

how goes the fortunes of Top Industries?

I was wiped out, boss.

But at least my cousin Hugo got out in time.

He made a killing.

Oh, Tattoo, don’t tell me.

You mean, the bottom fell out of Top Industries?

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