I am an old man (85 years in fact) and I saw this movie when it was first released. Since then I have had VHS tapes of it, then Discs, and for the past twenty or so years I have watched it on a PC. Heaven knows how many times I have seen this film, and I never tire of playing it. One of the finest musicals ever made, and as a personal opinion, in all that time I have never seen a more beautiful lady than Mitzi Gaynor. She never got the recognition that she deserved.

@quickchris10

3 жыл бұрын

Well probably it's the only musical based on a Pullitzer-prize winning novel.

@scar383

2 жыл бұрын

Wow may you live long with health sir!! We acted this at a school play

@yananicole9310

2 жыл бұрын

I played Rossano Brazzi. On stage at Christ the King Academy Gingoog city

@terrywright7470

2 жыл бұрын

@@yananicole9310 How wonderful for you to have been able to play such an iconic role, I am betting that you were the envy of all the men in your city. By the way, is that city the Gingoon City in The Philippines, I lived in Thorpe Park Manilla for almost four years. I have such beautiful memories of those times. Good Luck for your future.

@johnmuliyil8170

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. I too watched it when it was released. Though you have seniority on me by five years. I watched it on a screen called Todd AO. Cinema scope.

I don't care how old this film is, it's better than films they make today

@susantesar3508

13 сағат бұрын

Yes!

@terrywright7470

11 сағат бұрын

Agreed Les. That is because we used to have film STARS, now we have these people who have the personality and charm of a stick of celery, and they pay them millions.

@leswainwright5343

3 сағат бұрын

@@terrywright7470 Yes Terry spot on there are few stars today,back to the Golden Days of Hollywood there were too many to name

I married an Island Girl. 43 wonderful years together. This clip brought a bit of her back to me. Thanks for that.

I’m 33. My grandpa gifted my mom a VHS collection of classic musicals like this one, and I use to watch them all the time when I little. South Pacific is still one of my favorites.

In kindergarten we were supposed to sing a song. Most of the kids did Mary Had a Little Lamb or something similar. I sang There is Nothing Like a Dame. Mrs Aanderson thought it was hysterical and called my mother to tell her all of my classmates were totally confused. I was lucky my kindergarten teacher was cool. I can imagine some teachers would have punished me for being inappropriate.

@bethwilcox7121

4 ай бұрын

you are absoulutely very sweet

One of the best musical Fiĺms ever

They don't write shows like this anymore. Every song is a classic and the story pierces your heart.

@thiccboi-ro7yd

3 жыл бұрын

Attack on titan is better by miles

@clairesucks

3 жыл бұрын

Now we just say people are racist.

@lilvc3469

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly, you're not paying attention...

@newmoon54

2 жыл бұрын

Our lives, this world,, traveling through space ................ at 66,000 plus mph ................ is well worth writing music about .......................~!~

@CodaMission

2 жыл бұрын

They still write showtunes my guy. I promise Broadway musicals didn't go anywhere

Clap. clap. clap. I can watch Rodgers and Hammerstein musicales over and over again.

Thank you so much for sharing. Am 78 now, however this took me back to my youth. There was a time I could sing these, now I hum and still feel alive and happy.

This brings back so many memories. My mom and dad used to sing these songs so long ago. Dad is gone. Mom would still appreciate this.

MY FAVOURITE MUSICAL OF ALL TIME , LOVE IT TO TINY PIECES ❤❤❤❤

This show is so apt for today! Wish it would be shown in theaters with a lot of publicity beforehand.

My favorite musical. Takes us back to my father's generation. He was stationed in the South Pacific. Gorgeous songs, scenery, and characters. Evokes the longing of the men who were so homesick. Lt. Cable is a dreamboat. Mitzi Gaynor is terrific especially in "I Am as Corny as Kansas in August" as she dances on the beach. Lush and lovely all through. French song "Dites Moi" beautiful.

@barryjenkins4742

3 жыл бұрын

Hi it's my favorite musical movie , I didn't mind the color filters during the musical numbers the critics hated them, t thought it added to film atmosphere and its very spectacular on a Todd ao theater screen

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

John Kerr as “ Lt. Cable” needed to be more masculine, muscular, buff. When stripped down to his briefs he looked about 12. Not exactly the image of American manhood that would cause a beautiful Tokinese girl to surrender her virginity. Since he didn’t do his own singing a better more appealing actor should have been used.

@terrywright7470

Жыл бұрын

I cannot believe that someone as talented as Mitzi Gaynor was not amongst the top leading ladies of her era, Not only was she very beautiful, she was also a really great singer and dancer.

I enjoyed this musical.....2 of us back in the 60s that enjoyed musicals would poke fun at our work mates by telling them IF they could name the the musical where the song " there is nothing like a dame " came from we'd give them 10$....they couldn't. 😊😊😊they were stuck on rock & roll...😉🙃😉🙃....those were the days my friends...

Hanalei Bay. Possibly the most beautiful place in the world. Been there many times. Was there for a long week in June, 2015, and there was a wedding (and wedding photography) on the beach every night. Wonderful. 🥰

OMG!!! I watched this on my Dad's vhs tape everyday for the whole summer and 40 years later, I still memorized the lyrics!

My parents had the vynil sound track. I have the dvd somewhere in my collection im supposed to be building of Hollywood's musicals. Im 58 n luv these. So timeless. Evergreen charisma. ❤❤❤❤

This is one of my favorite movies. I love most musicals.

The classic is timeless and at same time takes me back to wonderful days of hearing the album on the Hi-Fi with my parents on a Sunday afternoon.

John Kerr lives in south Cali, he's retired and lives with his 2nd wife and has grandchildren, he turned 80 last year; Mitzi looks very good and still does a cabaret show, France Nuyen is living, about 2 yrs ago these actors got together in L.A. for an anniversary for "South Pacific".

Thank you for sharing this timeless classic. My father who recently passed away loved this musical and Mitzi Gaynor. I miss him terribly.

My favourite musical film. Such beautiful people and voices.

I laugh every time I hear “We Ain’t Got Dames.” Every word is hilarious. Whoever wrote the lyrics had to be a WWII veteran who had been on a remote island just as the lyrics indicate. No one else could have written something so perfectly.

@maryleone2023

2 жыл бұрын

The lyrics were written by Oscar Hammerstein, ll. He was busy writing other lyrics for Oklahoma, Carousel, and so many others. Oklahoma debuted on Broadway on March 31,1943. He was born in 1895 but there is no mention of him being in either WWl or WWll in any biographical article.

@paulhicks6667

Жыл бұрын

I think any veteran who was on any Pacific island where combat took place would regard this whole movie as the wild figment of a civilians imagination that it so obviously is.

@arnoldhoward2076

Жыл бұрын

@@paulhicks6667 my late father was a combat veteran of the Pacific War. He went through hell yet loved “South Pacific.” His generation loved that movie. It was written for the veterans and their wives.

Iam 63 and this is still a great one

Classic fantastic morals men when there were men and woman well woman great songs we need more this

The greatest musical production ever that has it all...singing, dancing, and a theme that the world needs to heed and learn from. I never tire of hearing the songs and I fell in love with Ms. France Nguyen (Liat) from the 1st time I ever saw the film. She was a wonderful actress who went on to be a spokeswoman for Asian actors in Hollywood; she was married at one time to Robert Culp and had many other roles including in the Star Trek series and The Joy Luck Club. 'Liat', you're loved forever!

My favorite musical of all time !! Thank you SO MUCH for posting these wonderful scenes and songs !!

@Operafreak9

4 жыл бұрын

Mine too.

@ribarnes1

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Such a beautiful story. The music is unforgettable.

@Johnmiller-rg3yo

3 жыл бұрын

The same here....beautiful memories!

@dennydixon9153

3 жыл бұрын

Well written, inspired music

Thanks 🤗❤️

Great movie, how many people do know that south pacific movie ran continually for 4 and half years in dominion cinema London early 1960s ,its run has never been surpassed to this day

@barryjenkins4742

3 жыл бұрын

The critics at the time hated the color filters effect during the musical numbers, but I thought it added to the atmosphere of the movie, look better on a huge Todd ao screen

@mary-annebarnett654

Жыл бұрын

I do my godfather and gran took me. I was 11 or so.

Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals are the best. I love all of them. Whether on Broadway or film, they are classics. South Pacific was more spectacular in movie form due to the Islands and water scenes. The setting for the movie could not be beat. If you want to experience the wonderful songs and music, I think the best South Pacific was the concert version at Carnegie Hall with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba McIntyre in the lead roles. You can see it free on You Tube. They should do a movie remake with them before Brian Stokes Mitchell gets too old.

The strong, vivid colors is what I remember most from my sister's unending viewing of this movie. The strong primary colors during certain sequences really stuck with me more than the songs or anything else. I do remember one sequence in a very strong red but I don't see it here.

@schallrd1

2 жыл бұрын

Many movie critics disliked the over use of the color filters to evoke a certain mood.

Love this . I have seen this on stage & of course on the screen . In a local production as a nurse . So fun!! ❤❤

thanks for the lovely memories..i think "South Pacific" capped everything that R+H did...i wonder how many sailors from Aus/Nz/US/UK knew that a little island off Singapore called Pulau Tiioman was the stage setting for this lovely movie...we were there about 1965 with our flagship.. only jungle then and a ww2 landing strip

Thank you for this. Brought back many memories. I played Bloody Mary in a college production back in 1982. I was telling my youngest son about it and came to look for the songs.

You are absolutely right! People don't understand anything about the composer. That he and his wife adopted two Chinese orphans at a time NO ONE adopted children who were not white. He was a great believer in HUMAN rights and anti racists. Thanks for posting your comment.

@meh62

4 жыл бұрын

참나

@ribarnes1

3 жыл бұрын

It’s hard to believe that race is still an issue. When I heard this as a child, I thought that kind of thinking was ancient history.

@valeriebellomo3573

2 жыл бұрын

People today have no understanding of those times..or appreciation for them. They've been "carefully taught" that America is a racist ciuntry

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Richard Rodgers was a talented composer but limited as a human being as was his wife. They had two daughters of their own BUT NEVER ADOPTED ANY ASIAN CHILDREN. And neither did Oscar Hammerstein II. Who are you thinking of??

Mom Used to sing these songs. Love this.

Such a beautiful musical, thank you for posting!!

Yes sir, me too, lots of tears of joy watching,remembering. I absolutely love the color changes, and you know what? I remember that when I was young, the sunshine was in fact more yellowish, now its bright white! Ha!

Exactly right. An article in Theater Journal describes how Rogers and Hammerstein, who wrote all the music in South Pacific, resisted considerable political pressure to cut the song "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from the play. According to James Michener, who wrote the book the play was based on, "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in."

@valeriebellomo3573

2 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@kariannowen9055

2 жыл бұрын

God bless their integrity and their brilliance. Both make them immortal.

@sandeeellick8291

2 жыл бұрын

We need this teaching for today's generation!!

James A Mitchener.... Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein... Lerner and Loewe... And so many many more wonderfully gifted people who brought so much joy to so many people all around the world, are all very much the reason I have always had such a love of their nation. The list of reasons in fact, could fill a dozen pages of commentary here. Its March 2023. My only prayer is that their nation can heal the dreadful division its suffering at this moment in time. And that this healing will happen sooner than later.

What an amazing experience seeing my first Broadway show ever. I remember it like it was today..

Huge credit to the late James A Michener. Never forget the treasure that he was.

Beautiful Video!!!! Well done!!!!!

We did this musical when I was in Highschool.... I played in the band.

I went to a show this past year in riverside and we happened to be one of the youngest of couples there. It was an honor. I was obsessed for several weeks after ❤

1958 original is priceless.Best version yet

The best lesson to teach our offspring: no prejudice. You have to be carefully taught. I learned about this musical trough the Kiri Te Kanawa/Jose Carreras take. Albeit that one has much better singing, this has so much more heart and soul.

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Rudolf Trost: ARE YOU TONE DEAF?? IGNORANT OF TRUE MUSIC, INTERPRETATION AND STYLE?? Listen to the original cast with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza; never been bettered, never will!!

@rudolftrost3534

Жыл бұрын

@@johnpickford4222 No. Not tone deaf, so no need for shouting. I am well aware of the original and I am a big fan, but Dame Kiri and Carreras do the song equally right. As stated, I first became aware of their take on the music of South Pacific- and still consider it worthy. My message somehow got lst in your angry reply: You have to be carefully taught!

@leemarie5019

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting! This brings back so many fond memories of my brother who had influenced me to love these musicals.

“We ain’t got Dame’s” !!! We have nothing to put a clean white suit on for 😝

As a boy, Dad and Mom loved this show. My brothers and I never knew it a musical , it was an annual movie and we had the soundtrack. We memorized bits, especially songs it like the Musicman or Yankee Doodle Dandy, showboat were movies. Had no idea we had been indoctrinated into wonderful music

@dovbarleib3256

6 ай бұрын

You were indoctrinated into Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Fredrick Lowe, and Meredith Willson.

I love these old musicals. R & H were truly great composers.

Thank you. I've seen This wonderful film Hundreds of time. Literally enjoy each time. I feeling such chills Great memories. When it came out, I saw it 20 plus Times. Thank you again, For sharing.

My late parents had the LP back in the day.I have the CD& the DVD.Pure nostalgia& a gr8 musical film!

@roseadams5362

4 ай бұрын

Was it the bi-fold LP with the extra colour photos from the film?

Thank you for this Romi. This was my late father’s favorite and it brings back childhood memories.

Rest In Peace, Oscar Hammerstein.

I was 10 when this movie came out, we went to Los Angeles, that was when you got dressed up to the movies. I learned every song in this movie. That Christmas I got the sound track from Santa Claus. It was the first musical I ever saw, and I was hooked.

most of it on the northshore of Kaua'i, Hanalei & Lumahai Beach, & underwater scene in "Happy Talk" in Hollywood & some interior scenes, too. the north shore of Kaua'i get a lot of rain tho' it's v. beautiful, John Kerr in an interview said it was difficult shooting around the weather & not much time for doing takes over again as is usually done. a beautiful film nonetheless!!!

South pacific and Mary Poppins two of the greatest musicals ever...for me anyway 🥰

Watched this with my Father & Mother in the late 60's superb.I was so impressed by the Marine I joined.

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Damn! Would you have joined a convent if you had seen THE SOUND OF MUSIC??😂

I first saw tis film in London in the sixties. I have loved it ever since. Such s timeless journey through life.

@bobbywimsy6741

2 жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful phrase: A timeless journey thru life. Thank you!

I took the lady in my life -- we are both veteran theater people -- to see the revival of "South Pacific", starring Paolo Szot and Kelli O'Hara, at the Vivian Beaumont some years back. I had forgotten that "Some Enchanted Evening" comes right at the beginning of the show. After Szot knocked it out of the park, she leaned over to me and whispered, "Don't take this the wrong way; but I'm in love". "So am I", I responded. She had to bite her tongue, to keep from laughing out loud.

Just thirteen years after WW2. Just thirteen years after all of that horror, and they still had a song in their hearts!!

@amykorbin535

6 ай бұрын

What a gorgeous storyline.

Love all the songs and cast-I have this movie for my collection.

My parents played the record of Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin’s Broadway version just after World War II in our log cabin in the Wyoming Mountains. Both are exquisitely done.🙋🏼‍♀️🏔💞🌠

@bobbywimsy6741

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is impressive. Live in semirural Maine. Music is everywhere and transcendent.

A brilliant film,always brings a tear to my eyes

Thank you sooo much! I grew up listening to the original LP which my mother recently threw out along with the entire R&H collection my father gave her while they were dating and seeing the shows on Broadway. :(

@tessieoshea6904

2 жыл бұрын

How terrible to throw away so many memories.

Mitzi was so talented

@terrywright7470

3 ай бұрын

And SOOOO beautiful too.

I know all the words of South Pacific too! I just love all these old musicals!

Original lyric in first song "Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love" was "DiMaggio's glove," not "a baseball glove."

Finest show ever... and Ezio Pinza Wows Met and Broadway... who else!!! Absolutely the grandest artist!

Ray Walston! My favourite Martian.

Beautiful movie. Beautiful music..

Just wonderful songs. Thank you !!!!

Our lives, this world,, traveling through space ................ at 66,000 plus mph ................ is well worth writing music about .......................~!~

The actor who played Stew Pot in the musical sequence "There Is Nothing Like a Dame"was the late American actor Kenneth Donovan "Ken" Clark. He was dubbed by the late American actor/singer Thurl Ravenscroft, known for his deep voice. Thank you for watching,

@drburkhart61

2 жыл бұрын

Thurl Ravenscroft was the voice of Tony the Tiger in the cereal commercials. Thurl sang the songs in the Dr. Seuss "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" cartoon from the 1960s. He was also the narrator for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney.

very nicely done! I love South Pacific, and find it comforting in these difficult and changing conditions in Ukraine and Russia. I hope it may end soon without more lives lost and blood shed.

I talked about the meaning of and quoted "Carefully Taught" lyrics in college classes for 10 years in the '70s. Not sure how much my students absorbed or understood. Great lyrics, laying out in an ironic way important concepts for bigots. Classic musical and film.

@johnlpowell Mr. Giorgio Tlozzi. the distinguished operatic bass singer did the singing. He died just ago on May 30, 2011. Thank you for watching.

the set decorator on the film was commissioned to design a hotel on that property then it was turned into a different hotel when i went, as far as i know it is a hotel on that property as i went last year, but if you went 2 wks. ago, i guess it must've been bought by a wealthy person, the view is incredibly beautiful when i first went on that property when it was a hotel many years ago. the location scout did a great job choosing Kaua'i's north shore for the film!

These songs make me cry everything. I'm ahopeless romantic.

The other dubbed bass in this movie is the also great Giorgio Tozzi. He was a Met opera star at the time. He was called 'Mr. Legato' by opera fans the world over. He was particularly good in Puccini and Mozart. While a true bass his voice was about a major third higher than Ravenscroft's.

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Who the hell is “Ravenscroft”? Also, Tozzi did a revival with Mary Martin at the Los Angeles Light Opera in ‘58 and at Lincoln Center in ‘67 with Florence Henderson which was recorded and has been released on Sony.

The Coen Brothers have in their movie "Hail Caesar" made an allusion to Nothing like a Dame in the sailor's ballet. It brings back souvenirs of my youth; at the time in Paris I went to see all the Broadway musicals adaptations, I remember that in the cinema where South Pacific was presented on the champs Elysées, which was the only theater equipped for showing Todd-AO shot movies, there must have been less than a 100 spectators. At that time French movie goers did not like american musicals but for a few of them. Today one of Paris Theater manager gives every year a revival of one of the great Broadway's. And the performance is sold out every evening for 2 or 3 months.Tomorrow opens Guys and Dolls. They're all performed in English and by generally American or British actors.

Excellent composition of this fabulous box office hit - South Pacific. I remember seeing this as a kid, I was Six. I own the original film on DVD. Back then movies shown on a wide screen cinema had great impact, wonderful times, going to the pictures (flicks)

Absolutley fantastic

South Pacific was the First Todd-AO 5 Perf 65 mm Motion Picture shot at 24 Fps. Originally, Todd-AO called for 30 Fps, but was quickly switched down to the Hollywood standard sound speed of 24fps so 35 mm prints could also be struc from the 65mm master duping negatives for traditional theatrical distribution. Todd-AO was a Prestige Big Screen 70 MM format which Panavision copied (Super Panavision 70 and Ultra Panavision 70, first named MGM Camera 65). Academy Award Winning Cinematographer Leon Shamroy was nearly fired from the production for using specialized trick glass Tiffen Filters which he inserted during the transition of dialogue to singing sequences to give the film a dreamy, other worldly look. However, Mr. Shamroy did not tell the colour timers down at Technicolour Labs in Hollywood, who were processing the dailies, and they complained to the studio head of 20th Century Fox, Daryl F. Zanuck, that the film is ruined and they must fire the production's D.O.P. at once !

Thank you for posting.

Really great to see these clips again. Thanks so much!

My late mother played these songs for days while she painted the living room. I was only five.

Juanita Hall did a great job in the movie, i've seen the musical on stage several times and she is the greatest Bloody Mary i've seen, there was a pbs version in 2009 which i see only on youtube as i missed seeing it on t.v., there is no dvd of this pbs version from Lincoln Centre, the singers all do their own singing unlike in this movie version. i still love the movie version the best dubbed singing and all!

@MsTruNorth

6 жыл бұрын

The Direction wasn't adequate for the Lincoln Centre reading. Reba McIntyre should have been given the instruction to play Nellie as a 19 year od girl who has left home for the first time and whose only guidance as to how to lead a good life is to please her parents expectations. Reba played Nellie as a bit of a smart aleck. Nellie was not ready to be a smart aleck yet.

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

There is a DVD and CD from the Carnegie Hall production with Reba McIntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. I remember the ‘09 revival with Kelli O’Hara and Paulo Szot that was broadcast on PBS. Matthew Morrison had left the show and his replacement was not as good an actor, singer or had the body when stripped down. Any island girl would want him to be the ‘first’. I don’t know why PBS can’t release both SOUTH PACIFIC and THE KING AND I (ok, it was broadcast from the London Palladium) on DVD to buy; they were great to watch.

Love this song these guys are true to there heart ❤️ in this movie 🍿 nice 😊

Thank you so very much for posting these compilations!

I love this film 😍

Hi! I've never seen South Pacific, but my orchestra is playing the suite from South Pacific and The King And I, and it's nice to be able to recognize the music... Thx!

I love this movie and the songs

Rodgers & Hammerstein's best work, for my money. Great clips, but I missed "Younger than Springtime."

@MsTruNorth

6 жыл бұрын

It's there in the song list.

Oh, thank you so much for putting these video clips together so beautifully for all of us to enjoy. I loved it so much.I have to get the CD and watch the movie too. My dad used to play this in the 60s when I was growing up.

One of my favourite movies ever!!!!!! Cable

"My favorite movie right back from 1960, when I watched this in Nairobi Kenya. I was also in the service of my country 'England' at that time'"

This should have included "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of my Hair"? It's the only one my mother could sing, although she tried singing "Some enchanted evening". Also you should have included "Honey Bun", where "Nellie" plays a sailor with a big muscular "girlfriend".

That was a lot of work, well done! It always reminds me of Kaneohe Bay, Lived in Kahaluu (Hawaiian for gathering of the birds) now in the Redwoods of Eureka, Ca.

@romympanlilio

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

Beautiful. Thank you.