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Release Date:
19 March 1958 (USA)
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Tagline:
In the thrilling tradition of "Around The World In 80 Days"... more
Plot:
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 7 nominations
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(3 articles)
BBC Wants To Televise Classic Musicals
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 February 2002)
Should White Actors Be Allowed To Play Characters Of Other Races?
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 14 December 2000)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 February 2002)
Should White Actors Be Allowed To Play Characters Of Other Races?
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 14 December 2000)
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Josh Logan's colour-filter paradise
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rossano Brazzi | ... | Emile De Becque |
| Mitzi Gaynor | ... | Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN |
| John Kerr | ... | Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC |
| Ray Walston | ... | Luther Billis |
| Juanita Hall | ... | Bloody Mary |
| France Nuyen | ... | Liat |
| Russ Brown | ... | Capt. Brackett, USN |
| Floyd Simmons | ... | Commander Harbison, USN |
| Tom Laughlin | ... | Lt. Buzz Adams |
| Jack Mullaney | ... | The Professor |
| Ken Clark | ... | Stewpot |
| Archie Savage | ... | Chief - Boar's Tooth Ceremonial Dancer |
| Candace Lee | ... | Ngana - Emile's Child |
| Warren Hsieh | ... | Jerome - Emile's Child |
| Francis Kahele | ... | Henry - Emile's Servant |
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157 min | 171 min (roadshow version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm mag-optical prints) |
Mono (35 mm optical prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Australia:G |
Iceland:L |
New Zealand:G |
USA:Approved (certificate #18688) |
Canada:G |
Finland:K-8 |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U
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France Nuyen had not yet learned English when playing the role of "Liat". Fortunately, she was able to converse in her native language (French) with co-star Rossano Brazzi, who spoke French as well as his native Italian.
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Anachronisms: When Luther Billis is in the lifeboat being fired upon by Japanese troops, the rear of the lifeboat shows its manufacturing date as 'APR 1956'.
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Quotes:
Bloody Mary:
[giving a shrunken head to Lt. Cable] You like I give you, free!
Luther Billis: Free? You never gave me anything free!
Bloody Mary: You no sexy like lieu-tellen.
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Luther Billis: Free? You never gave me anything free!
Bloody Mary: You no sexy like lieu-tellen.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
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This slush-fest version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musical suffers on the small screen because of its constant use of colour filters during the songs. On a big screen, this looks great, but just looks odd on TV.
This aside, though, this film of 'South Pacific' has much to enjoy. Mitzi Gaynor is a bubbly personality and is clearly enjoying herself as Nellie Forbush, 'washing that man out of her hair' and so on. Rossano Brazzi is charming as Emile (the singing is expertly done by Giorgio Tozzi); we can have a pang of regret that Ezio Pinza was seen to be too old to play the role by the time the film appeared - his work with Mary Martin in the original cast survives in cast recordings - but Brazzi looks the part.
John Kerr is a bit of a wet fish as Lt. Cable, while Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary is excellent, and Ray Walston as Luther, and France Nuyen as Liat, make an impression in smaller roles. The musical numbers are done extremely well - 'Bali Ha'i', 'I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy', 'Some Enchanted Evening', 'Younger Than Springtime', and 'Happy Talk' and the rest.
Where the film does flag is in the sequences where Emile and Cable go to the island to report on the Japanese invaders. This was handled rather better in the 1990s remake, and also moves along better in the stage version. Here, it clashes a bit with the romantic overtones of the rest of the production.