South Pacific (1958)

Directed by

Joshua Logan

Genre

drama film, war film, musical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 51m

Rated

U

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 118 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1943 on a South Pacific island, a Navy nurse falls in love with a French planter while a Marine lieutenant falls for a native islander. The story intertwines these romances with the challenges of World War II and racial prejudice.

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What happens

South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific. The film, directed by Joshua Logan, stars Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr and Ray Walston in the leading roles with Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary, the part that she had played in the original stage production. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Sound for Fred Hynes. It is set in 1943, during World War II, on an island in the South Pacific. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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