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6.0/10   296 votes
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Director:
Robert Rossen
Writers:
Alfred Hayes (writer)
Alec Waugh (novel)
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Release Date:
27 August 1957 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
The place is the West Indies . . . the sun hides many things.
Plot:
Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Worth a look...hypocrisy and discrimination.... more

Cast

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James Mason ... Maxwell Fleury

Joan Fontaine ... Mavis Norman

Dorothy Dandridge ... Margot Seaton

Joan Collins ... Jocelyn Fleury
Michael Rennie ... Hilary Carson

Harry Belafonte ... David Boyeur
Diana Wynyard ... Mrs. Fleury
John Williams ... Colonel Whittingham

Stephen Boyd ... Euan Templeton
Patricia Owens ... Sylvia Fleury
Basil Sydney ... Julian Fleury
John Justin ... Denis Archer
Ronald Squire ... Governor Templeton
Hartley Power ... Bradshaw
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Additional Details

Runtime:
119 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) (video rating) (1998) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Barbados more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In August 1957, this film was being being shown on a double bill with Monkey on My Back (1957). more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) more

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Worth a look...hypocrisy and discrimination...., 6 April 2009
8/10
Author: MarieGabrielle from United States

This film, having been made in 1957 has a very intriguing and slanted portrayal of a wealthy plantation owner (well-portrayed by James Mason) and a few over-privileged white women (Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins and her vapid mother, who owns a large estate).

Harry Belafonte is wonderful as the West Indies native of this fictional island. He (ostensibly) is pursued by Fontaine, but rejects her world. Why is her American world supposed to be considered so ideal?. Well, this was written in 1957.

Having lived in South Florida, and traveled, in this day and age a story regarding poverty wages and slave labor would be much starker and realistic. Sugar cane plantations still exist to this day, in Belle Glade, and the Everglades area. A story we rarely hear about, unfortunately.

This film is worth watching for the hypocrisy of the time, as a curiosity piece. I also consider the Lana Turner film ("Imitation of Life")to fall into the category of denial and repression of human rights, which still exist in America to this day. 8/10.

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