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Enchanted Island (1958) - What Is Your Favorite Meat?

With his wounded buddy Tom (Don Dubbins), New England-based sailor Abner (Dana Andrews) has been taken in by a South Sea island tribe, represented by lovely Fayaway (Jane Powell), still worried they may be cannibals, in Enchanted Island, 1958, from a Herman Melville novel.

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Allan Dwan opens his final film, on location on the Mexican Pacific coast, from Herman Melville's novel Typee, introducing sailors Dana Andrews and Don Dubbins, island pimp Arthur Shields, officer Les Hellman and Ted de Corsia their cruel captain, in Enchanted Island, 1958, also starring Jane Powell.
Enchanted Island (1958) - You Don't Find Cannibals That Pretty
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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