South Pacific

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Based on the novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener.
Adapted from the play South Pacific by Ricahrd Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
Originally produced as a motion picuture in 1958.
Interactive menus include scene selection, language selection, special features (movieton news premiere, cast & crew, production notes).
Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Russ Brown.
Set in the Pacific theater during World War II, this musical film explores the theme of racial prejudice in two parallel stories; that of a Navy nurse's love for a plantation owner with two Eurasian children, and a Marine lieutenant's love for a native woman.
DVD, THX digitally mastered, widescreen format (aspect ratio: 2.20:1), Dolby digital, NTSC.
Contents: Tales of the South Pacific.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Thought-provoking submitted by crazypockets on July 16, 2013, 3:43pm This movie was pretty revolutionary in its genre at the time for addressing racism so fearlessly. It might be hard for audiences today to understand the big deal, but I think it's something people should probably see to understand where we came from. I think this movie had its low points (the way the young soldier treats his love interest and how she's portrayed as being so childlike), but the good intention and message is there along with some really great songs. The song "You've Got to be Carefully Taught" still is very moving today. This movie is worth seeing if only for that part.

Full of old stereotypes submitted by willow on August 12, 2016, 3:38pm This movie, which includes Juanita Hall (an African American) as Bloody Mary, a loud, fat, washed up Pacific Islander who speaks in pidgin English with a strong, fake "Asian" accent, and several Asian American actresses, most notably France Nuyen, playing mute, gorgeous, subservient females.

The songs feature "inspiring" lines such as, "You've got to be taught to be afraid / Of people whose eyes are oddly made" -- not exactly the antidote to racism.