South Pacific

South Pacific (1958)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (12,229 ratings)

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.… More

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In Theaters
Jan 1, 1958 Limited
On DVD
Apr 27, 1999
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Joshua Logan's stiff screen version leaves much to be desired, and Mitzi Gaynor is miscast and charmless, but the score is undenibaly glorious

  • Brian Webster, Apollo Guide

    Might not be musical enough for some, and it's certainly not going to be substantial enough for some. But it's entertaining and more emotionally true than you might expect.

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    What the hell could anyone have been thinking in literalizing an "enchanted evening" as a toxic cloud?

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Despite the reddish hues, one great Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    One of the most popular musicals of the decade, despite artistic problems

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • danny d


    mitzi gaynor is absolutely stunning. south pacific is a fine musical with wonderful landscapes and really solid music. i did feel that the war story could have been used a little more and the love story a little less, but overall this is a great musical.

  • jay n


    A mere shadow of the stage play. Overproduced and almost painfully overbright.

  • Lanning :


    There is nothing you can name, nothing in the world . . . like it. A great song line-up. Ray Walston is one of the most memorable character actors . . . Bali Ha`i may call you . . . And a young France Nuyen--beautiful . . . Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger across a… More

  • Alec B


    Out of all the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific is probably the best. Still it's a wildly uneven piece with a few really good songs scattered among some very mediocre one's. As for this film, it's a very poor adaptation. The color filtered scenes gave me a… More

  • Andrew F


    Saved by its songs.

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