South Pacific

South Pacific

1958 | 2h 37m | Romance, Musical | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

This lavish 1958 movie version of the smash Broadway musical guarantees a truly enchanted evening. A lush island setting ... the touching romance of a WWII Army nurse and a French planter ... and the lovely Rodgers and Hammerstein score.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Joshua Logan

CAST

Rossano Brazzi

Mitzi Gaynor

John Kerr

Ray Walston

Juanita Hall

PRODUCERS

Buddy Adler

WRITERS

Paul Osborn

Richard Rodgers

Oscar Hammerstein

Host Intros

02:18
Alicia Malone Intro -- South Pacific (1958)
Intro Aired: Feb 2019
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces South Pacific, 1958.

Related Videos

04:20
Big Screen Classics: South Pacific
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South Pacific (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
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Mitzi Gaynor as nurse Ensign Nellie Forbush, created in James Micheners WWII stories, first seen on Broadway (Mary Martin) and given voice by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, directed on stage and screen by Joshua Logan, with a song that was Martins idea, shooting in Hawaii, and Rossano Brazzi her subject, in South Pacific, 1958.
South Pacific (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Like A Dame!
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Ray Walston (as "Luther") leads the chorus, with a drop-in by Mitzi Gaynor (as nurse "Nellie") in easily the beefiest number from South Pacific, 1958, Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Nothing Like A Dame."
South Pacific (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Cockeyed Optimist
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Not a mistake, the screen turns yellow-gold, in a technique director Joshua Logan disliked but didn't have time to fix, as Ensign Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) sings Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cockeyed Optimist" for Emile (Rossano Brazzi) in South Pacific, 1958.
South Pacific (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Rodgers And Hammerstein
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Following the overture but to similar effect, the opening credits from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, 1958, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi, directed by Joshua Logan.
01:04
South Pacific - (Re-issue Trailer)
Trailer
Joshua Logan's movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific (1958) stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi.

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