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South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific.
61 Photos. Musical Romance War. On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. Director. Joshua Logan. Writers. Paul Osborn. Richard Rodgers. Oscar Hammerstein II. Stars. Rossano Brazzi. Mitzi Gaynor. John Kerr.
1958 Motion Picture. Music by Richard Rodgers | Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Screenplay by Paul Osborn | Adapted from South Pacific by Oscar Hammersetin II and Joshua Logan and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener.
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The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Musical Scoring, and won an Academy Award for Best Sound. On March 26, 2001 ABC broadcast South Pacific, a made-for-television movie based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick Jr., directed by Richard Pearce.
March 26, 2001. ( 2001-03-26) South Pacific (also known as Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific) is a 2001 American romantic musical television film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of James A. Michener 's 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific .
SOUTH PACIFIC CONDENSED SYNOPSIS. During World War II, two love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a local French estate owner, Emile.
