South Pacific(1958) is a really great musical about the Navy during world war II in the South Pacific Islands: Great Songs!

I would have been 10 years old when I first saw this movie  at Grauman's Chinese theatre then in Hollywood. 

South Pacific

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1958 ‧ Musical/Romance ‧ 2h 37m

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At its center is a romance between a wealthy Frenchman with a penchant for secrets and a naïve, bubble-headed army nurse. Meanwhile, a bizarre subplot follows a ...

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IMDb 6.8/10

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Mitzi Gaynor

Ensign Nellie Forbush

Rossano Brazzi

Emile De Becque

Juanita Hall

Bloody Mary

John Kerr

Lt. Joseph Cable

Ray Walston

Luther Billis

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Russ Brown

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South Pacific (1958 film)

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South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific

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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.

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Nurse Nellie Forbush of the U.S. Navy falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile De Becque, but recoils upon discovering that he's fathered two ...

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Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse.

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South Pacific - 1958 Motion Picture

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The film version of South Pacific premiered on March 19, 1958. Directed by original Broadway director and co-librettist Joshua Logan, the film starred Mitzi ...

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Sparks fly when a naive Navy nurse stationed in the South Seas meets a worldly French plantation owner in this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

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Love blooms on a Pacific island where the U.S. Navy has established bases during WWII.

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Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile De Becque (Rossano Brazzi), but recoils upon discovering that he's fathered two mixed-race children. When Nellie leaves him, the heartbroken Emile agrees to take on a dangerous espionage mission.

Release date March 19, 1958 (USA)

Director Joshua Logan

Music composed by Richard Rodgers, Alfred Newman

Awards Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Adapted from South Pacific, Tales of the South Pacific

Running time 2h 37m

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