Pearl of the South Pacific1955
Starring
- David Farrar - Bully Hague
- Lance Fuller - George
- Virginia Mayo - Rita Delaine
- Lisa Montell - Momu
- Dennis Morgan - Dan Merrill
- Basil Ruysdael - Tuan Michael
- Carol Thurston - Mother
- Murvyn Vye - Halemano
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Member Reviews (3)
This is your B Movie vacation to the South Seas, complete with jungle soundstage, actors in brown body make-up, giant rubber octopus, a tropical beach that looks suspiciously like Catalina Island, and Virgina Mayo in a sarong. All in all a very routine production, but not dull.
It’s a post-World War II, Technicolor beach bum daydream that gives you a sense of how Tiki culture found it’s place in mid-century America. In fact, some of the sets would make great Tiki Bars.
2 ½ The sets, costumes and occasional action scenes were fun and about the only reasons to watch this. Otherwise, it was so predictable and full of clichés that I wouldn’t be surprised if the screenwriters wrote the screenplay while sleepwalking. The actors had decent, journeyman performances in their roles as 50s/60s action stereotypes. Would have been decent late-night, channel-surfing viewing to fall to sleep to.
EXCELLENT:is the onlyword that fits for this film.