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Posts Tagged "South Pacific"

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PT 109 ** (1963, Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Robert Culp, Grant Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6244

Cliff Robertson impersonates President, or rather Lieutenant, John F Kennedy in Leslie H Martinson’s well-meaning but long, routine and stuffily handled 1963 World War Two biographical war film about JFK’s youthful war adventures in the […]

Nov, 13

Heaven Knows, Mr Allison **** (1957, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 6,166

John Huston’s popular 1957 drama movie Heaven Knows, Mr Allison teams Robert Mitchum as a laconic US marine corporal with Deborah Kerr as a nun, stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean in 1944. Co-writer/ […]

Oct, 31

Saturday Island [Island of Desire] *** (1952, Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray, John Laurie, Lloyd Lamble, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 5,907

Tab Hunter recalled how well he got on with Linda Darnell on the 1952 film Saturday Island [Island of Desire]: ‘She was sweet, patient and helpful, befriending an inexperienced kid. She even threw a surprise […]

Aug, 13

Mister Roberts ***** (1955, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 5,882

Henry Fonda re-creates his Broadway role as the war-mongering officer Lieutenant Roberts aboard a World War Two cargo ship battling with tyrannical ship’s captain Captain Morton (James Cagney), in the 1955 comedy drama film Mr […]

Aug, 08

South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

The Blue Lagoon *** (1980, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 1254

Director Randal Kleiser’s striking-looking but daft 1980 romantic adventure movie of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel remakes the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, but adds a lot of […]

May, 26

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