Just a few years before he teamed up with fellow filmmaker Max Rosenberg to form Amicus Productions — to wit they produced a number of memorable anthology horror flicks in the ‘60s and ‘70s — Milton Subotsky wrote a modest little screenplay about a man that gets washed overboard during a storm, only to start life anew on a small island in the Bahamas. After being adapted by director John Rawlins, Lost Lagoon went into production with B-Movie actor Jeffrey Lynn (who is also credited with “additional dialogue”) in the lead as Charlie Walker.
Charlie’s a regular businessman whose responsibilities in life are beginning to supersede his life itself. One night, after a powerful storm knocks Charlie into the sea. Washing ashore a small inhabited island in the Bahamas, Mr. Walker is nursed back to health by an attractive young slightly-handicapped local lass named Elizabeth (Leila Barry). Elizabeth is all alone in the world following the death of her grandfather — whom she had started up a (failed) resort with — and the sudden departure of her now ex-boyfriend. Within a few days, Charlie realizes that his new island life is much more peaceful, but returns to the States nonetheless — only to discover that his wife (Jane Hartley) and brother-in-law (Roger Clark) believe him to be dead.
Worse still, Charlie discovers that his presence really isn’t missed by anyone. Deciding to leave his old life behind for good, Charlie returns to the island and helps Elizabeth (whom he has more than a little crush on) to re-open the resort with his brother-in-law's money; an idea that proves to be successful. They even open up their own gay bar. No, seriously: the lounge they have has a sign hanging outside of it that reads “Gay Bar” (my, how times have changed!). It’s all for naught, sadly, when an insurance investigator (Don Gibson) locates the believed-to-be-deceased man. Will Charlie go back to his old life, or stay on the island? And how will the sudden arrival of Elizabeth’s ex-boyfriend (Peter Donat) change things between our newfound couple?
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