The hell of the South Seas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hell of the South Seas |
| Original title | Typhoon |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis King |
| script | Allen Rivkin |
| production | Anthony Veiller |
| music | Friedrich Hollaender |
| camera |
Allen M. Davey William C. Mellor |
| cut | Alma Macrorie |
| occupation | |
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Hell of the South Seas is an American adventure film directed by Louis King from 1940 , in which comedic elements are in the foreground. The leading roles are played by Dorothy Lamour , Robert Preston and Lynne Overman . The script is based on a story by Steve Fisher .
action
Dea has lived alone on an island since she was a child after a shipwreck. Without human contact, she grows up there with the chimpanzee Koko as her only companion.
Captain Joe, who deals in black pearls, meets Johnny Potter on a South Sea island, who has been devoted to alcohol since his expulsion from the Navy. Joe wants to hire Johnny as a navigator, but Johnny no longer wants to go to sea. In a bar fight Johnny is deposited by the natives Kehi and Joe schanghait . Kehi follows the men to Joe's old rusty submarine to retrieve an earring with a black pearl stolen from him by Mekaike, one of Joe's sailors.
Mekaike forgot to fill the tank, so the submarine has to stop moving. They are in front of the island on which Dea and Koko live. Johnny collapses drunk on the beach and is found by Dea and taken to her tree house. Joe comes to the beach believing his missing navigator has been driven out to sea. Joe and his men build a boat to get off the island. Dea asks Johnny to stay, but Johnny believes he will die an early death from alcohol and refuses. Johnny returns to the beach just as Mekaike begins a mutiny against Joe. Johnny and Joe are tied to palm trees by the mutineers. The mutineers get on board the submarine, which promptly sinks because the men forgot to close the hatches.
Johnny and Joe are now building a boat for their part. Kehi, still hunting for his earring, arrives on the island and causes a fire. The fire hit the trees as a typhoon approaches the island. The island is flooded, a lifeboat is washed ashore. Joe, Johnny, Dea and Koko board the boat to return to civilization.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as “a crazy and romantic South Seas Robinsonad, which becomes a little more exciting through the fight against greedy pearl fishermen for black pearls, but remains overall more fun and superficial than exciting. At most, the virtuoso portrayal of the typhoon at the end of the film is really attractive. "
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times states that with all the storms and a routine script, the film is only occasionally exciting.
Awards
In 1941 Farciot Edouard, Loren L. Ryder, and Gordon Jennings were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Special Effects category.
background
The world premiere took place on May 17, 1940. The film was released in Germany in July 1955.
In addition to the film music by Friedrich Hollaender, other pieces of music are also represented, composed by John Leipold and Leo Shuken , among others .
The film is one of over 700 Paramount Pictures productions shot between 1929 and 1949, the television rights of which were sold to Universal Pictures in 1958 .
Web links
- Hell of the South Pacific in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hell of the South Seas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ criticism of the New York Times on nytimes.com