South Pacific

South Pacific
by Joshua Logan

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Actor: John Kerr, Juanita Hall, Mitzi Gaynor, Ray Walston, Rossano Brazzi
Director: 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: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 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: Poor film.
Summary: 1 Stars

Poor direction and a plodding pace ruin this film. Hollywood took a wonderful Broadway musical and destroyed it. The only good thing about it is the music. The cd of the soundtrack is absolutely glorious. But the film itself is perfectly dreadful. And what was with the different lens colors for the different songs? I found that totally unnecessary and positively ANNOYING!

DVD Review: South Pacific
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a long time loved movie. I really like watching it with my family. The movie was new and in great condition. It did take a long time to get to me, however.

DVD Review: Be aware of degraded version on DVD
Summary: 3 Stars

We enjoyed watching this DVD. However, we watched the "Extended..." version which had sections in which the color was degraded as if it were made from an old film version that was faded. There is another version on the DVD that appeared to have the color either restored or otherwise produced with good color (we just reviewed sections that were poor on the other version, but were good in this version). We have not watched all the information on the DVD, e.g., Music Only. At least one of the songs "This Nearly was Mine," does not have the complete words that are included in some sheet music or onstage productions such as that by Paulo Szot as shown on YouTube.

DVD Review: A Masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars

A great film with outstanding performances, and the memorable music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Highly recommended!

DVD Review: Fall In Love
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie has several unforgettable songs, panoramic vistas, a cast imbued with enchantment and depth, cultural sensitivity and four well interwoven subplots.There are two parallel love stories (passionate, but clean) {1 and 2}; set on an island naval base of the World War II South Pacific {3} and involving human beings of vastly different backgrounds {4}.

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 Horton

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