South Pacific

In the first scene between Nellie and Luther Billis (during the song "There is Nothing Like a Dame"), Luther's shirt unbuttons and rebuttons itself several times.

Tattoo on the stomach of Luther Billis disappears and reappears when he is stranded in the lifeboat.

When Nellie asks Captain Brackett if the "Frenchman" on the island she's heard about from all the pilots in the hospital is "her Frenchman," there's a complete mismatch between what she says and the movement of her lips.

When Luther Billis is in the lifeboat being fired upon by Japanese troops, the rear of the lifeboat shows its manufacturing date as 'APR 1956'.

During "A Wonderful Guy," there's a part when 'Mitzi Gaynor' (qv)'s lips aren't synchronized with the music whatsoever.

While singing "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair", the soap on Nellie Forbush's shoulders disappears and come back.

At least two of the sailors are black.

The Armed Forces were not desegregated until 1948, three years after WW2 ended.

Although the cockpit of the seaplane appears to have all its glass shot out, the crew never show any effect from the wind that would be whipping through.

At least one of the Jeeps shown is a model M-38 from the 1950s.

When Luther Billis is paddling away from the gunfire, the cable pulling his lifeboat can clearly be seen.

In the beginning of the film, the controls of the pilot and co-pilot are not really linked.

It's obvious that the pilot is turning the wheel but the co-pilots is not in sync.

It's turned by an unseen hand.

Towards the finale of "Nothing Like a Dame", Nellie jogs along and picks up her party dress from Luther although she won't even be invited to the party until several scenes later when she meets Emil.

South Pacific (1958): Dir: Joshua Logan / Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall: Colorful scenery highlights this musical about the distractions life can issue when turmoil looms. The war against Japan is in full but one island off the Pacific holds a private paradise.

The remake of Bye Bye Birdie was lacking in energy, too TV-movie-like, not sharp enough and had only two good performances(proof that being more faithful doesn't automatically make it good), while the animated version of The King and I suffered from useless additional characters and some bizarrely staged musical numbers(Whistle a Happy Tune and It's a Puzzlement being the worst cases). But even they were not as bad as this 2001 version of South Pacific.

Only problem dubbing of principals. I'd have cast Frank Sinatra as Emily, Doris Day as Nellie (no offence meant Mitzi) and Elvis Presley as Joe.

I love this movie, I've had a crush on John Kerr since I was 8. But instead of giving a biased review, I'm going to direct my comments to the people complaining about the colours.

I have seen this movie, set in the South Pacific during WWII, more than once, and I have always been impressed by it. The beaches on the South Pacific are beautiful, the acting is rather good, Rossano Brazzi is excellent as the expatriate from France, and Mitzi Gaynor is a good actress and an extremely drawing lady.

I first saw this movie in 1968 in a TODD-AO 70 mm print on an 84 Ft. D-150 screen with full six channel surround.

I have always had a soft spot for this musical, as I recall my parents (my mother, especially) playing the original LP over and over. My uncle, who served in the Navy in the South Pacific during WWII, loved it, too.

I'm sorry but I found this movie 'corny', not entertaining and the vocal performances were not what I call good. Some of the songs performed in the show, themselves, are good tunes when performed by more talented vocalists.

"South Pacific" would have us believe that it's indicting racism, but it pushes other kinds of racist beliefs. While it condemns bigotry, it still says that the people of the Pacific islands were a bunch of naive, backwards types who needed white people to civilize them.