Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Apr 12, 1979 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De Laurentiis' ill-advised remake of the 1938 Sam Goldwyn production of the same name. The story of the casual cruelties imposed by the white ruling class on the natives of the isle of Manakoora had the advantage of timeliness in 1938; forty-one years later, the story plays like a Gilligan's Island amateur production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the old Jon Hall role of the native
Apr 12, 1979 Wide
Jul 22, 2008
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (3) | DVD (2)
Inferior redo of original Jon Hall spectacle; state of art effects for 1970s.
What happened? Jan Troell is normally such a magnificent director. This is one slow moving film. Mia Farrow stinks, the rest of the cast isn?t much better. Visually it is quite beautiful, and technically speaking it is fine, but dramatically it is greatly lacking.
October 22, 2009I THOUGHT IT WAS A PRETTY GOOD FILM - SOMEWHAT UNIQUE PLOT. MET DAYTON KA'NE A LONG TIME AGO IN WAIKIKI. HE TOLD ME THAT HE DECIDED HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE A MOVIE STAR ANYMORE - JUST WANTED TO STAY HOME AND BE A LOCAL BOY IN HAWAII. VERY ATTRACTIVE MAN. CHARMING AND NOT AT ALL CONCEITED. I REALLY LIKED HIM. TOO BAD HE
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