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The Hurricane is a 1937 film set in the South Seas, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, about a Polynesian who is unjustly imprisoned. The climax features a "hurricane" generated through special effects. It stars Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John ...
The Hurricane: Directed by John Ford. With Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith. A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- John Ford
- 1938-02-07
Soon the savage hurricane rips through the island and huge waves destroy the church. Terangi has tied Marama, Tita, Germaine and himself to a giant tree, but the violence of the storm uproots the tree and deposits it on a distant spit of land. The next morning, Kersaint and the inhabitants of his boat are among the few survivors, and a frantic ...
- John Ford, Stuart Heisler, Wingate Smith
- Dorothy Lamour
The Hurricane: Directed by John Ford. With Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith. A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their relationship is torn asunder when Terangi is ...
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- John Ford
- Adventure
- Dorothy Lamour
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In the days of the tall ships and of colonial rule in the South Pacific, a native sailor working as first mate on an island-hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed in Tahiti for striking a racist planter with government connections. His attempts to escape and return to his home and his bride result in an increased sentence.
The Hurricane (1937) was a Action - Drama Film directed by John Ford and Stuart Heisler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn and Merritt Hulburd. SYNOPSIS A Ford tropical fantasy and a wonderful adventure story set on an idyllic island, where a young couple (Lamour and Hall) and their clash with the local governor (Massey) are made insignificant by ...
