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Enchanted Island - (Original Trailer)

Dana Andrews finds an Enchanted Island (1958). Unfortunately it's inhabited by cannibals! Loosely based on Herman Melville's Typee.

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Dana Andrews as sailor Abner, fleeing a vengeful captain in the South Seas circa 1842, wraps this with a line probably not from the original Herman Melville novel as, with injured buddy Tom (Don Dubbins) they pursue native Fayaway (Jane Powell), her first scene, in Enchanted Island, 1958.
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