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Return to Paradise is an American South Seas adventure drama film released by United Artists in 1953. [3] [4] The film was directed by Mark Robson and starred Gary Cooper, Barry Jones and Roberta Haynes.
Return to Paradise: Directed by Mark Robson. With Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes, Moira Walker. An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Mark Robson
Return to Paradise (1953) stars Gary Cooper as Mr. Morgan, a casual drifter who lands on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. The native islanders he finds there are living in fear under the iron fist of Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a fire and brimstone preacher hell-bent on imposing Christianity on them.
- Mark Robson, Tom Connors Jr., Ivan Volkman
- Gary Cooper
Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune washes up on a Pacific island that is a small dictatorial state under the puritanic rule of Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary. They conflict but Morgan stays on and carves out a cozy life.
Overview. An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down. Mark Robson. Director. James Michener. Story. Charles Kaufman. Writer. Reviews.
This James Michener tale has Gary Cooper as Mr Morgan – an American drifter and soldier of fortune who stumbles on the remote Pacific island paradise of Matareva, which is being turned into a minor-league hell by tyrannical missionary preacher Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones) in 1929.
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Return to Paradise is a Technicolor South Seas drama film released by United Artists in 1953. The film was directed by Mark Robson and starred Gary Cooper, Barry Jones and Roberta Haynes. It was based on a short story, Mr. Morgan, by James Michener in his short story collection Return to Paradise, his sequel to Tales of the South Pacific.