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Fiend of Dope Island
1961 American film
Fiend of Dope Island, also released as Whiplash, was a lurid men's adventure type motion picture filmed in 1959 and released in 1961. The picture starred and was co-written by Bruce Bennett and was the final film directed by Nate Watt. It was filmed in Puerto Rico[1] where producer J. Harold Odell had previously filmed his Machete (1958) and Counterplot (1959). Several scenes were censored for the United States release.[2] The film co-stars Tania Velia, billed as the "Yugoslavian Bombshell" who had appeared in the July 1959 Playboy, and Puerto Rican actor Miguel Ángel Álvarez.