South Pacific - Singalong DVD [2006]

South Pacific - Singalong DVD [2006] Description

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 Logans 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 originals 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 catalogue: Some Enchanted Evening, Younger than Springtime, Im Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair, This Nearly Was Mine. Thats Juanita Hall as the sly native trader Bloody Mary, singing the haunting tune that launched a thousand tiki bars, Bali Hai. The movie is based on stories from James Micheners book Tales from the South Pacific. --Robert Horton, Amazon.