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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543381525
Feature: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Academy Award -winning "South Pacific" is a towering musical masterpiece and the tender love story of a na ve young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French Plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) on a U.S. occupied South Sea island. The breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written: "Some Enchanted Evening," "There is Nothin' Li
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 35
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoSpanishSubtitledEnglishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2238152
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Running Time: 157 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1958
Features:- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Academy Award -winning "South Pacific" is a towering musical masterpiece and the tender love story of a na ve young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French Plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) on a U.S. occupied South Sea island. The breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written: "Some Enchanted Evening," "There is Nothin' Li
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Musical about an American navy nurse on a Pacific island during World War II who falls in love with a French planter, who becomes a war hero.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 7-NOV-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, brought to lush life by the director of the original stage version, Joshua Logan. Set on a remote island during the Second World War, South Pacific tracks two parallel romances: one between a Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) "as corny as Kansas in August" and a wealthy French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi), the other between a young American officer (John Kerr) and a native girl (France Nuyen). The theme of interracial love was still daring in 1958, and so was director Logan's decision to overlay emotional moments with tinted filters--a technique that misfires as often as it hits. The comic relief tends to fall flat, and an overly spunky Mitzi Gaynor is a poor substitute for the stage original's Mary Martin. But the location scenery on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is gorgeous, and the songs are among the finest in the American musical catalog: "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger than Springtime," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair," "This Nearly Was Mine." That's Juanita Hall as the sly native trader Bloody Mary, singing the haunting tune that launched a thousand tiki bars, "Bali H'ai." Based on stories from James Michener's book Tales from the South Pacific. --Robert Horton
Average Rating: 
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My wife wanted this, partly from seeing parts of it on TV and, partly from the memory of seeing the stage show in New York many years ago where she lived. She certainly enjoyed it.
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This should have been a really wonderful experience seeing this movie after such a long time but anyone could see the quality of the DVD is terrible;it skipped,the music dragged and generally the quality of this movie was terrible. It appears to have gone through a temperature extreme- heat or something. I cannot send it back without paying some fee and it is not fully viewable. South Pacific is a wonderful work of art but you cannot tell from this DVD. Furtheremore, I did not know it was done in widescreen-it did not say this in the description.
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Beautiful scenery. Beautiful people. Wonderful story. Unfortunately Mitzi Gaynor, as beautiful as she is, is only a second rate Nellie. She is unbelievable as an innocent small-town girl. If you want to see and hear Nellie as she SHOULD be, get South Pacific in Concert with Reba as Nellie. Plus... Reba can sing!
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An utter disappointment! The lip syncing is just awful. What is really terrible about this film is the director's decision to film certain scenes in a ghostly yellow with everything in the scene appearing to be deathly ill. A film I purchased, watched, and then tossed it in the trash.
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Poor direction and a plodding pace ruin this film. Hollywood took a wonderful Broadway musical and destroyed it. The only good thing about it is the music. The cd of the soundtrack is absolutely glorious. But the film itself is perfectly dreadful. And what was with the different lens colors for the different songs? I found that totally unnecessary and positively ANNOYING!
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