South Pacific

Release Date: 1996-09-03, Rating NR (Not Rated),

Release Date: 1999-03-09, Rating NR (Not Rated),

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Academy Award-winning "South Pacific" is a towering musical masterpiece and the tender love story of a naive 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' Like A Dame," "Younger Than Springtime" and more. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "South Pacific" ranks among the most celebrated of Rodgers and Hammerstein's acclaimed musicals.

Release Date: 2006-11-07, Rating NR (Not Rated),

Release Date: 2006-11-07, Rating NR (Not Rated),

DVDs. South Pacific (ce)

Release Date: 1999-04-27, Rating NR (Not Rated),

A Rodgers and Hammerstein classic revolving around a forbidden love affair between a native girl and a young American sailor on a Pacific island during World War II. Songs include "Some Enchanted Evening" "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" and "Bali H'ai." Academy Award Nominations: 3. Academy Awards: Best Sound.

Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener's best-selling novel Tales of the South Pacific, the film stars Mitzi Gaynor as WAVE officer Nellie Forbush, who while stationed overseas during World War II falls in love with wealthy French planter Emile De Becque (Rossano Brazzi). The Navy would like DeBecque to help them in a reconnaissance mission against the Japanese, but he refuses; having run away from the outside world after killing a man in his home town, De Becque sees no reason to become involved in a war which he did not start and in which he has no interest. But when Nellie, her inbred bigotry aroused when she discovers that Emile has two mixed-race children, refuses his proposal of marriage, DeBecque, having nothing to lose, agrees to go on the miss