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The 1938 British film Vessel of Wrath [The Beachcomber] is made for the Mayflower Pictures Corporation, a film company formed by star Charles Laughton and producer-director Eric Pommer. Happily, Laughton’s first venture into film production […]
‘Greed and lust threaten a tropical paradise.’ Director Alfred E Green’s desperately daft and dated 1940 romantic adventure South of Pago Pago stars Victor McLaglen as Bucko Larson, who leads his band of ruthless pirates […]
Director Charles Vidor’s pleasant, entertaining 1942 old-style South Seas island saga The Tuttles of Tahiti is based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty, with […]
A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]
Story writer/ director Edgar G Ulmer’s exotic but trashy 1943 movie tells a below-par, clichéd tale of a search for a sunken ship with a $3 million cargo of gold in the South Seas. However, […]
‘Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making!’ Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 adventure movie stars Burt Lancaster as an American 19th-century adventurer-sailor, sea captain David Dion O’Keefe, who journeys to the South Seas, where he […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1928 silent stars Gloria Swanson, who gives her all as William Somerset Maugham’s provocative character Sadie Thompson, the shady lady who comes to Pago Pago and falls for and weds marine sergeant […]