Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9785554454806
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 5554454801
Label: Twentieth Century-Fox
Manufacturer: Twentieth Century-Fox
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox
Running Time: 157
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1958-03-19

The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) "as corny as Kansas in August" and a wealthy French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi), the other between a young American officer (John Kerr) and a native girl (France Nuyen). The theme of interracial love was still daring in 1958, and so was director Logan's decision to overlay emotional moments with tinted filters--a technique that misfires as often as it hits. The comic relief tends to fall flat, and an overly spunky Mitzi Gaynor is a poor substitute for the stage original's Mary Martin. But the location scenery on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is gorgeous, and the songs are among the finest in the American musical catalog: "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger than Springtime," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair," "This Nearly Was Mine." That's Juanita Hall as the sly native trader Bloody Mary, singing the haunting tune that launched a thousand tiki bars, "Bali H'ai." Based on stories from James Michener's book Tales from the South Pacific. --Robert Horton

Customer Rating:
Summary: dissapointed
Comment: I was dissapointed with quality of the color. It was like looking at old phots that faded with time. They could have done a better job at cleaning up the color. The night sceans were almost purple and the day sceans by the ocean were washed out. For the price of the dvd they could have digitly remastered the entire movie and had a better quality.

It wasn't worth the $21,99 paid.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Great Ones Just Keep on Delivering
Comment: I was a teen-ager when I first saw this movie and have never stopped being impressed with everything about it. The music will be listened to and enjoyed long after most of us have passed on. My only regret is not having seen the stage production but the combination of Gaynor, Brazzi and Ray Walton would be hard to improve upon. And the photography of the islands takes the viewer into the true land of make-believe. There is also more social weight here than I remembered. "You've got to be carefully taught" says as much about today's problems as the ones on the screen.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: "Soutn Pacific" DVD
Comment: Broadway was just a string of Variety shows until "South Pacific". Everything changed after that. This DVD is a wonderful experience.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great gift
Comment: I had bought a different DVD of South Pacific for my children's anniversary, but returned it as that wasn't the one they wanted. They are just thrilled with this one.South Pacific (Collector's Edition)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great classic
Comment: The digital enhancement of this old classic is superb! The special features were also very good. Pure entertainment!

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