South Pacific

About South Pacific

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?

South Pacific (1958) is a music romance film directed by Joshua Logan. Released in March 1958, it runs 157 minutes.

The film is filed under interracial relationship, u.s. navy, plantation, and tropical island. It is adapted from a stage production.

Rossano Brazzi stars as Emile De Becque, Mitzi Gaynor as Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN, John Kerr as Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC, and Ray Walston as Luther Billis. The screenplay is by Paul Osborn. Produced by The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and BroadwayHD.

The Sound of Music and West Side Story make useful companions to South Pacific, all filed under musical, world war ii, and based on play or musical. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 122 votes.