Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1958 Limited
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Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener's best-selling novel Tales of the South Pacific, the film stars Mitzi Gaynor as WAVE officer Nellie Forbush, who while stationed overseas during World War II falls in love with wealthy French planter
Jan 1, 1958 Limited
Apr 27, 1999
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (1) | DVD (9)
You get both versions of the film on the two Blu-ray discs in this release: the 157 minute theatrical version and the 172 minute 'road show' version.
Might not be musical enough for some, and it's certainly not going to be substantial enough for some. But it's entertaining and more emotionally true than you might expect.
Classic Broadway musical with serious themes, great songs.
What the hell could anyone have been thinking in literalizing an "enchanted evening" as a toxic cloud?
Despite the reddish hues, one great Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
music is glorious
mitzi gaynor is absolutely stunning. south pacific is a fine musical with wonderful landscapes and really solid music. i did feel that the war story could have been used a little more and the love story a little less, but overall this is a great musical.
January 23, 2007
Super Reviewer
A mere shadow of the stage play. Overproduced and almost painfully overbright.
September 27, 2007
Super Reviewer
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