MusicRomanceWar

South Pacific

- There is nothing you can name that is anything like...

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.

Release Date : 1958-03-18

Language :EnglishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Magna Theatre CorporationSouth Pacific EnterprisesThe Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Emile De Becque

Original Name : Rossano Brazzi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN

Original Name : Mitzi Gaynor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC

Original Name : John Kerr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Luther Billis

Original Name : Ray Walston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bloody Mary

Original Name : Juanita Hall

Gender : Female

Character Name : Liat

Original Name : France Nuyen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Capt. J.M. Brackett, USN

Original Name : Russ Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Professor

Original Name : Jack Mullaney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stewpot

Original Name : Ken Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commander Harbison, USN

Original Name : Floyd Simmons

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ngana - Emile's Child

Original Name : Candace Lee

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jerome - Emile's Child

Original Name : Warren Hsieh

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt. Buzz Adams

Original Name : Tom Laughlin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emile De Becque (singing voice)

Original Name : Giorgio Tozzi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ceremonial Dance Chief / Boar's Tooth Ceremonial Dancer: Chief

Original Name : Archie Savage

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henry - Emile's Servant

Original Name : Francis Kahele

Gender : Male

Character Name : 1st Communications Man

Original Name : Robert Jacobs

Gender : Male

Character Name : 2nd Communications Man

Original Name : John Gabriel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Co-Pilot

Original Name : Richard Harrison

Gender : Male

Character Name : Navigator

Original Name : Ron Ely

Gender : Male

Character Name : Seabee Dancer

Original Name : Steve Wiland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Admiral Kester

Original Name : Richard H. Cutting

Gender : Male

Character Name : U.S. Commander

Original Name : Joe Bailey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fighter Pilot

Original Name : Buck Class

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fighter Pilot

Original Name : Richard Kiser

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pilot in Hospital

Original Name : Robert Hover

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pilot in Hospital

Original Name : Doug McClure

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pilot in Hospital

Original Name : Stephen Ferry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Joan Baker

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Diane Reid

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Phyllis Butcher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Dian Goodman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Barbara Cole

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

Original Name : Muffett Webb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse at Nurses' Beach

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Faye Antaky

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Donna Pouget

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Dorothy Abbott

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Pat Volasko

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Jan Haller

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Beverly Aadland

Gender : Female

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Gender : Male

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Original Name : Jonnie Paris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Evelyn Ford

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Betty Bunch

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Original Name : Susan Logan

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Dan Wallace

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Karl Heyer

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Jim DeCloss

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Original Name : Mark Pinkston

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Original Name : Velton Parker

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Original Name : John Chasey

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Original Name : Lee Thomas

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Original Name : Jim Ganley

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Original Name : Murray Gaby

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Original Name : Robert Nielson

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Original Name : William Glisson

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Original Name : Hadley Gray

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Original Name : George Hooper

Gender : Male

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Original Name : John Caler

Gender : Male

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Gender : Male

Character Name : Sailor / Seabee

Original Name : Mike Salamunovich

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Tom Logan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marine / Sailor in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Durwood Bloomgren

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Charles Lunard

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Tex Brodus

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Original Name : Roy Damron

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marine / Sailor in Thanksgiving Show

Original Name : Clark Lee

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Galvan DeLeon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boar's Tooth Ceremonial Dancer: Whip Man

Original Name : Bob Destine

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Sidney Hurston

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Original Name : Steve Pappich

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Original Name : Victor Upshaw

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Original Name : Ann Darris

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Gender : Male

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Original Name : Harrigan Logan

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Dorothy Michener

Gender : Male

Character Name : Missionary

Original Name : James A. Michener

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Knuckleheads and cockeyed optimists. Even though it's gargantuan in length, this is actually a "small" screen adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway play. Met with indifference by the critics of the time, it has however come to be loved by many a musical fan. I'm not one of them though... There's no denying that the songs are superb, mostly top draw, but there are so many irritating issues within. The much discussed colour filters that were used by director Joshua Logan and cinematographer Leon Shamroy, are overkill, trying to supplant whimsy when really a static set can't carry the treatment. Pic is easily 45 minutes too long, thus when the war sequences come so late in the play they feel at odds with what has transpired in the previous 2 hours of film. Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi as our loved up lovers are polar opposites on character terms, but also in acting skills. She is radiant for the key musical numbers, but her character away from the musical numbers starts to grate the longer the pic goes on. He, well he's as stiff as one of Logan's camera set-ups is. Even some of the dancing choreography comes off as something that was originally thrown away during production discussions. The tunes carry you through to the end, for they demand to be given our attention, but really this is one musical that I really could never watch again. 5/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-01-16

Amidst the backdrop of the Second World War, Joshua Logan takes us, courtesy of Rodgers and Hammerstein, on a romance set on a beautiful tropical island. Mitzi Gaynor is one of the few women here who is surrounded by squad of hormonal sailors who declare "There's Nothing Like a Dame" early on, so she has no shortage of would-be suitors. Also on this island is the Frenchman "Emile" (Rossano Brazzi) whom the visitors want to use to help map out the adjacent islands held by the Japanese. What now ensues follows the will they/won't they nature of their developing relationship interspersed with some wartime plotting and peppered with musical standards like "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"; "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Younger than Springtime" the film trundles along to it's rather obvious conclusion. There can be no doubt that the songs are memorable, but there is not a jot of chemistry between Brazzi and the increasingly Doris Day-esque Gaynor and the ensemble chorus numbers come across as overly choreographed and not in the least natural. For much of the film, it appears as if it's shot through a telescope with slightly blurred edges. Initially reminiscent of dream sequences, this technique soon loses it's potency and ends up contributing little to this generally rather lacklustre and thinly plotted comic love story. There's also no getting away from the glaringly obvious dubbing as Giorgio Tozzi provided the real operatic bass tones on behalf of our leading man. The music carries this a great deal, but the rest of it is little better than colourful wartime B-movie that I found did disappoint.