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

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)

Trailer

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