South Sea Woman (1953)
- Directed by
- Arthur Lubin
- Genre
- adventure film, war film, comedy drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two American soldiers and a woman find themselves caught up in a series of misadventures during World War II in the South Pacific. The story involves a court martial, a prison escape, and a pirate attack, mixing comedy with action.
lightheartedcomedicaction-packedwhimsicalplayfulromanticadventuroustongue-in-cheek
What happens
South Sea Woman is a 1953 American black-and-white action-comedy-drama film starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Chuck Connors, and directed by Arthur Lubin. It was based on the play General Court Martial by William M. Rankin with the working title being Sulu Sea. The picture was written by Edwin Blum. Jeanine Basinger's and Jeremy Arnold's book The World War II Combat Film – Anatomy of a Genre calls the film a significant mixture of genres: tongue-in-cheek adventure, "Flagg and Quirt" (1926)-style service comedy, Road to... Hope and Crosby road film, South Seas, prison escape, pirate, World War II and costume drama mixing ridiculous comedy with hard-boiled action in "Tell It to the Marines" style. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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