The picture starred and was co-written by Bruce Bennett and was the final film directed by Nate Watt.

[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.

Charlie Davis runs his own island in the Caribbean with a literal whip hand.

Charlie's world falls apart when one of his employees is an undercover narcotics investigator.

The Cramps named their 2002 record album Fiends of Dope Island after the film.