Culprit and another student nurse, Belinda, arrive too late for the voyage home. The Nightingales and Useless Bums receive orders to return to the states. Together again with Culprit in his pension room, she sleeps all the time and never speaks. She returns, walking from the water on the waveless beach. Unable to locate her family, the Americans drop her coffin into the sea. After years of crippling headaches, Josie then suffers from a hysterical death. It turns out Josie is not having a baby after all it was a hysterical pregnancy. Meanwhile, a small expedition heads toward a town built by zombies with the goal of finding one. The Nightingales and Useless Bums concoct a wild plan involving theatrics and a commando-style raid to set the world right. government go to establish surfing as a tourist attraction on the magic island? The film set creates a curious spectacle witnessed by Haitians, who provide spectacles of their own involving voodoo possession.Ī power-mad doctor has taken over as State Department provost and imprisons Culprit Clutch on the grounds of impregnating a student nurse.
The question becomes, what length will the U.S. The surfing film does not turn out as planned, as there are no waves in northern Haiti. The students have found a cache of rifle and are living in anarchic conditions, while teaching themselves the art and science of nursing. Joining the Bums are the Nightingales, American nursing students placed at a school in Haiti that’s been forgotten by their contacts in Washington. State Department/United Nations plan to turn Haiti into the new Hawaii. Front and center are two star-crossed lovers: the errant filmmaker Culprit Clutch and his ghostly paramour, a nursing student named Josie.Ī band of New York City playwrights-turned-educational filmmakers, the Useless Bums, are sent to northern Haiti to create a tourist film promoting the new sport of surfing on Haitian beaches. A satire driven by dialogue, Happy Talk takes place among Americans sent to Haiti in the mid-1950s for a myriad of misdirected purposes, then follows their lives through the 1970s.
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