On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and a gangster looking for some money owed to them.
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
Director:
Gene Kelly
Stars:
Barbra Streisand,
Walter Matthau,
Michael Crawford
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking. However, their restless daughter Margy and her brother Wayne meet attractive new love interests.
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.Written by
Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
The love scenes between characters Joe Cable and Liat were considered shocking by the still conservative standards of the late 1950s. See more »
Goofs
Emile is supposed to be a Frenchman, but speaks English, and sings (dubbed) with a heavy Italian accent. See more »
Quotes
Nellie:
Do you get letters from your mother telling you that everything you do is wrong?
Lt. Cable:
No. My mother thinks everything I do is right. Of course, I don't tell her everything I do.
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Crazy Credits
There are probably more dubbed singing voices in this film than in any other screen version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, but the only one which actually receives screen credit is that of Giorgio Tozzi, who dubs the singing voice of Emile de Becque (Rosanno Brazzi). This is because Tozzi was a renowned bass-baritone with the Metropolitan Opera. See more »
Alternate Versions
The 1999 DVD contains some scenes where the color filters are either more subtle or completely removed compared to previous versions. However, the filters were reinstated for the 2006 DVD and 2009 Blu-Ray. See more »
since before internet and IMDb existed so I an unfazed by the snipping trivial criticisms here.
it is basically an very good, not outstanding, effort to show some of the romanticism associated with that terrible event, the war in the pacific.
there are 100s of thousands of islands in that great ocean, can we not believe a bali hai exists undiscovered somewhere, if only in our imaginations? the DVD which I just bought today has the Michner 60 minutes interview. he refused to let the film crew on the island out over the water in the distance. he wanted it to stay an idyll.
cant we all do that? France Nuyen is the most beautiful actress of her generation and a very talented and strongly principled and intelligent lady.
the racism angle has been flogged enough here, suffice to say it is handled fairly accurate in depicting the mood of the times.
and thank you to those who explained what 'road show' version meant.
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since before internet and IMDb existed so I an unfazed by the snipping trivial criticisms here.
it is basically an very good, not outstanding, effort to show some of the romanticism associated with that terrible event, the war in the pacific.
there are 100s of thousands of islands in that great ocean, can we not believe a bali hai exists undiscovered somewhere, if only in our imaginations? the DVD which I just bought today has the Michner 60 minutes interview. he refused to let the film crew on the island out over the water in the distance. he wanted it to stay an idyll.
cant we all do that? France Nuyen is the most beautiful actress of her generation and a very talented and strongly principled and intelligent lady.
the racism angle has been flogged enough here, suffice to say it is handled fairly accurate in depicting the mood of the times.
and thank you to those who explained what 'road show' version meant.