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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
--
Jas. M. Barrie
SOUTH PACIFIC
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The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War,
South Pacific
tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) 'as corny as Kansas in August' and a wealthy French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi), the other between a young American officer (John Kerr) and a native girl (France Nuyen). The theme of interracial love was still daring in 1958, and so was director Logan's decision to overlay emotional moments with tinted filters
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a technique that misfires as often as it hits. The comic relief tends to fall flat, and an overly spunky Mitzi Gaynor is a poor substitute for the stage original's Mary Martin. But the location scenery on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is gorgeous, and the songs are among the finest in the American musical catalog: 'Some Enchanted Evening,' 'Younger than Springtime,' 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,' 'This Nearly Was Mine.' That's Juanita Hall as the sly native trader Bloody Mary, singing the haunting tune that launched a thousand tiki bars, 'Bali H'ai.' Based on stories from James Michener's book
Tales from the South Pacific
.
--
Robert Horton
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ITEM DETAILS
Consciousness Calibration Level:
310
Submitted by:
Michael Backus
Directed by:
Joshua Logan
Starring:
Rossano Brazzi
,
Mitzi Gaynor
,
John Kerr (II)
MPAA Rating:
NR (Not Rated)
Theatrical Date:
19 March, 1958
Release Date:
13 August, 2002
Manufacturer:
Twentieth Century Fox
Format:
Color, Closed-captioned, THX
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