South Pacific
by Joshua Logan
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Actor: John Kerr, Juanita Hall, Mitzi Gaynor, Ray Walston, Rossano BrazziDirector: Joshua Logan
Writer: Joshua Logan
Producer: Buddy Adler
Producer: George P. Skouras
Writer: James Michener
Writer: Oscar Hammerstein II
Writer: Paul Osborn
Writer: Richard Rodgers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of South Pacific
DVD Review: one of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a long time fan of this movie. Many years ago, the Roseway in Portland Oregon showed the film. Some people claim that the second part of the "washing that man right out of my hair number", was only on the soundtrack and never in the movie. This is untrue. I actually watched the film all four days it played.
Yet when it was released to the public on VHS - the second part of the number had been cut out. I asked the owner of the Roseway if he knew why and after he did some checking explained that there had been a fire in the area where several old movies were stored (L.A. I think). There was smoke damage in that part of the sene that could not be properly restored and thus deleated.
When amazon released the DVD (several years back) I purchased a copy and again it was not there. My sister gave me this copy for Christmas, and though the number was still incomplete, the extra material included makes it well worth the price.
For those who have never seen the film, note that it was set during world war two and has some very sad parts in it. That said, the wonderful musical numbers and overall love stories, still makes it one of the most wonderful movies ever made.
DVD Review: Exactly what I was shopping for
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband was surprised this movie was available, and in wide screen! It was the perfect gift for the guy who has or gets whatever he wants. This is his all-time favorite movie! I recommend it for your collection.DVD Review: South Pacific Collectors Edition
Summary: 5 Stars
This digitally enhanced version was beautiful..it didn't take away from the original movie at all. DVD Review: South Pacific
Summary: 4 Stars
My wife wanted this, partly from seeing parts of it on TV and, partly from the memory of seeing the stage show in New York many years ago where she lived. She certainly enjoyed it.DVD Review: Outh Pacific-Gone through a heat
Summary: 3 Stars
This should have been a really wonderful experience seeing this movie after such a long time but anyone could see the quality of the DVD is terrible;it skipped,the music dragged and generally the quality of this movie was terrible. It appears to have gone through a temperature extreme- heat or something. I cannot send it back without paying some fee and it is not fully viewable. South Pacific is a wonderful work of art but you cannot tell from this DVD. Furtheremore, I did not know it was done in widescreen-it did not say this in the description.
Description of South Pacific
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--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 HortonGeneral DVDs
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