About this Event
South Pacific
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 during WW2. The parallel and doomed love story of a young lieutenant and a island girl is perhaps even more poignant. The breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written. This is the fourth collaboration between Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein and, under a sugar coating, it bravely tackles the subject of racism.
This is a film that needs to be seen on the biggest screen - it was made in the revolutionary process of Todd-AO with twice the definition of standard 35mm film and the six track stereophonic soundtrack was amazing in 1958.
If you’ve seen it on the television you really haven’t seen it at all! It’s been meticulously restored so this is a rare chance to see a classic musical shown exactly as its makers intended. (USA 1958)