Island of promise

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Movie
German title Island of promise
Original title Saturday Island /
Island of Desire
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1952
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stuart Heisler
script Stuart Heisler,
Stephanie Nordli
production David E. Rose
music William Alwyn
camera Arthur Ibbetson ,
Oswald Morris
cut Russell Lloyd
occupation

Island of Promise (Original title: Saturday Island and alternatively Island of Desire ) is a British feature film from 1952 directed by Stuart Heisler , who also wrote the screenplay with Stephanie Nordli . The main roles are cast with Linda Darnell , Tab Hunter and Donald Gray .

action

During the Second World War , a hospital ship was hit by a mine on its way home and sank. The still very young American Marine Corporal Michael Dugan was able to save himself in a boat just in time that had been left empty in the general confusion. When he sees the nurse Elisabeth Smythe floating in the water, he saves her in the boat. Although the lady is a few years older than him, he feels increasingly drawn to her.

Several days later the boat drifted towards a small South Sea island and crashed into the reef. The castaways manage to save themselves on the island. There is plenty of drinking water and fruit. Bird eggs, fish and game also enrich the menu. The longer the involuntary stay lasts, the more disturbed Elisabeth becomes. When she was rescued once again by Michael and who desperately wanted her, she rejected him - Elisabeth herself was confused, as she had so far only focused on her dream of becoming a doctor and therefore never had romances. However, Elisabeth opens up slowly and can no longer bear to see her savior deeply unhappy. When she surrenders to him, Michael wishes that the stay on the island never ends.

One day the British aviator William Peck is forced to make an emergency landing on the island. The machine overturns and is immediately on fire. With the commitment of his life, Michael succeeds in saving the break pilot. He is lovingly nursed back to health by the nurse. But the longer William has to share the island with Elisabeth and Michael, the more jealous Michael becomes of the newcomer. When he is fully recovered, he is challenged by the younger Michael to fight and knocked to the ground. This could possibly have been dangerous for William, had it not been for a ship on the horizon that was signaled by the aircraft radio on-board and heading for the island. Now all three are happy that their Robinsonade is coming to an end.

On the ship, all three see their position from a different angle. Michael has to realize that Elisabeth suits William better than him. Eventually, the two rivals reconcile.

background

The story Saturday Island by the British author Hugh Brooke (1902–1977), who also wrote the script for the horror film Donovan's brain , served as a template . Was produced island of promise by the English company Coronado Productions , but also under the financial assistance of the American film studio RKO Pictures , which distributed the film internationally. Although the film was largely a British production, the director Heisler and the main actors Linda Darnell and Tab Hunter were American. For Hunter Island of the Promise was the first major film role, through which he achieved wider notoriety thanks to the commercial success of the production. The South African Donald Gray (1914–1978), who plays the third leading role in the film, also had his left arm amputated in real life. He had lost it in 1944 during its use in the Second World War in a shell in Caen .

The film was not shot in the South Pacific, but in the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, England, and in Jamaica . A hurricane delayed filming in Jamaica by two weeks in the summer of 1951. In Great Britain the film was first shown on March 20, 1952, in Germany on February 27, 1953.

synchronization

The German dubbed version of Island of Desire was created in 1952 in the dubbing department of RKO Pictures in Berlin.

role actor German Dubbing voice
Lieutenant Elisabeth Smythe Linda Darnell Ingeborg Grunewald
Marine Corporal Michael J. "Chicken" Dugan Hunter tab Klaus Schwarzkopf
William Peck Donald Gray Gunnar Möller
Dr. Snyder, doctor on hospital ship Russell Waters Ernst Constantine
Nurse on hospital ship Hilda Fenemore Marion Degler

criticism

The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "The erotic confusion of a triangular relationship doesn't make the unbelievable, pseudo-romantic Robinsonade any more interesting." The US film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote that the recordings in Jamaica were pleasing to the eye, but Hunter and Darnell were as Lovers not believable.

literature

  • Film program: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Donald Gray at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Island of Desire (1952) - Notes - TCM.com. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Island of Promise on synchrondatenbank.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1819
  5. ↑ islandofdesire - Dennis Schwartz. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .