I'm 90 year old Brit. and grew up able to watch all the American and British Musical films during the 50s. This one that I hadn't watched since. It brought back all the words and music. A great film.
70 years old , grew up in a slum in north east england,mam cleaned picture house in sunderland for 35 years seen them all but had a dad and sister , feeding me johnny ray ,frankie lane ,and 50s/60s rock and roll. very poor ,but very happy.
I love the intro with a blank screen and the full orchestra teasing us with the South Pacific music in full theater sound. Listening with my earphones on reminds me of the day in 1956 when I first attended the showing. I miss great musicals!
Met Juanita Hall when I was a little girl. The stage play came to Boston. She joined my parents & me at our table saying, “Is your name Juanita Hall, too” to my mother as her name was Juanita also. When the movie came out, I went many times to see it & sang along with every lovely song. Had a huge crush on John Kerr/Lt. Cable. Happy memories.
if there was a time in our history to hear the wonderful music of Richard Rogers its now when the world feels so dark and dangerous! Thank you for sharing.
@davidh9638 We had 2 fantastic Drama teachers.They actually had been involved in doing script writing etc back in there day.I am a Thespian.You had to earn that back in the day.In my first year in college to get my fine arts done,I actually played Mary Queen of Scots however this was fun,but I knew my calling very early in life.I am a Retired RN.
I cry when I see South Pacific I was six years Old and sung every song and danced every dance there are so many messages to glean from. Thanks ! I ove Bali and the People especially Mitizi Gaynor she was superb May she rest in the arms of God eternally...
I'm 66 and all my life I've heard of this movie. Now, I've seen it for the first time. What a spectacular picture. And the scenery is so lush and rich. A masterpiece. Thank you for enabling me to see this at last.
I am almost 74. I married the Joy of my life 49 years ago on the October Thanksgiving Weekend. She passed away in 2014. I paid a tribute to her by singing this song today. And then I found this movie of so long ago. My heart tells me she and I will meet again in Gods forever: Some Enchanted Evening! ❤
No problems. You simply wanted some clarification. I presume you may live in USA! 🇺🇸 Being so I do hope and wish you/ everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🇨🇦
A school friend of mine said he was going to watch South Pacific . This was late 50s early sixties . This must have been magical all those years ago on the silver screen in Liverpool. I really got into this . Thank you so much.🙏
I remember watching this on t.v. with my mother who love movie musicals. She would often get me up out of bed when my other siblings were sound asleep and she'd make a big bowl of salty burnt popcorn and I'd get a blanket and curl up on our old couch and mom would tell me all the gossip about the movie and the film stars as we were watching the show. Mom would usually fall asleep halfway through the movie but she'd wake up at the end as the credits were rolling, and then I'd go back up to bed. Good times and Special memories with my one in a million mother .
The world was such a better place to live in when this magnificent movie was filmed. No computer generated garbage that's prevalent with most films today. Wish I could be magically taken back to this period of time.
Where there was prejudice against different races, women were considered subservient & were expected to aspire to find a man and to be barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen. If they did work they basically had the choice of nurse, secretary or teacher. They received minimum wage & stayed way below the salery of a male in a comparable job. Yep, those were the "good times."
A better place? No. This is a wonderful film but 1950s apartide, Jim Crow, no loans/ credit for women, unregulated use of the environment and on and on……. I’ll happily watch this from 2024😊
@@lynette6085 To each their own lynette. In the 1950's money was real and still backed by gold. Today the dollar is not money but legal tender and inflation (which is a hidden tax) is killing the middle class. Loans weren't needed as much in the 50's to live as they are today. Today the world is controlled by the elites whose rules andr egulations only benefit them and its a far more dangerous place to live in. But enjoy the movie. It's a gem.
My grandmother took me to see this at the “Pictures” in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 … at home we had only a black & white TV, which was a luxury in the 1950’s … so to see this amazing film on a huge screen ALL in COLOUR was just totally magic to my childlike eyes and the music just swept me away … unforgettable memories!
My grandmother also took me to see South Pacific, I think I was 10 or 11 I am now 76 and the memory stays with me always, I got a big crush on John Kerr.
What a joy to see this great musical again. I am now 81 and am still enjoying it as if it were for the first time. Some of these older musicals are the best, in my opinion. 🏴🇬🇧
"The men are men" shows your intelligence. Most of those sailors were plucked from Muscle Beach in LA. Most of them posed for gay "muscle" mags. Director of the stage and screen Joshua Logan was a nasty queen. Educate yourself. ruclips.net/video/1RjUgB39fmk/видео.html
@user-yp2mw2ko9kUnfortunately it appears you are viewing this movie through your generational? prejudices. Consider what life was like during WW11. This is a great movie.
I don't know which musical my Pa loved more, South Pacific or My Fair Lady but I suspect it was which ever one he was playing on his Hi-Fi at that moment. This is a sentimental gem.
Thank you, sharing. I'd say that about both my mother and dad, who were lucky to share their love of music with the three of us children... ❤️ 💜 let's forward this minus the adds with friends and family
@@infonut I've read many criticisms of the color photography, but after living in Thailand for 18 months, the so-called weird colors perfectly captured the feel of the heat and humidity and even the smell. I know it isn't possible to smell colors, but the photography in this movie is very evocative for me.
It was the #1 box office film in America in 1958. It had not only Rodgers & Hammerstein's best score ever, but R&H's personal attack on the racism of the America of that time which we still fight seven decades later. Yet, the film not only did not even get a nomination for Best Picture, but had to watch from the sidelines as another musical (''Gigi''), a questionable film which has a storyline about a man falling in love with an underage girl won the Best Picture Oscar. Tragic.
Says an awful lot about the mainstream values of the time doesn't it. My fifteen year old daughter has always absolutely loved these old musicals, looking forward to sitting with her later and watching this as she's never seen it and I was probably her age when I last did! 😂
Same here, I was in my early teens, “in love” with the “wrong” guy ‘til I “grew up” 5 yrs later?! So this film was just so romantic with fantastic music & the new colour effects it made my 💓pitter-patter more. Thinking back on issues in the story it must have also then been a wee bit controversial?! I must have seen the film at least 20 times but still see something new in it each time😊. Fantastic treat from RUclips, thank you. J C
The colour filters used in south pacific were very controversial the critics hated them, however the public at large loved the movie regardless, it became a box office hit ,in its day
This is the PERFECT musical. Rodgers & Hammerstein's best score ever, as played by Alfred Newman's 20th Century-Fox orchestra with a riveting important story which attacked the racism which, sadly, we are still fighting today.
@@shabbymaverick7975 Alfred Newman trivia: he reused his "Hallelujah" theme from the end of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" twice. In "Song of Bernadette" and "The Robe" . The Robe is currently on here for free. Whether he wrote the score or adapted the score like here in South Pacific, it always sounds so authoritative.
I'm curious what the audience thought of it. It seems like it deals with such 1940s American provincial attitudes. Not that the Japanese don't have their own provincial attitudes. I'm just wondering how it translated.
Some Enchanted Evening is one of the most romantic songs ever sung. I watched this with my grandmother and mother several times as a young boy. We all loved the film and especially this song. Years ago, my wife didn't believe me when I told her realistic the lyrics seem to me. It can happen. Strangers meet and fall in love in a variety of ways; some at first sight.
I remember holidaying in Kauai and got very sunburnt. So decided to spend the day indoors. Ended up watching South Pacific while gazing out at the jetty that was built specifically for South Pacific. The irony was not lost on me.❤️
This is the very 1st time I watch this wonderful movie. I remember most of these beautiful songs. In fact, in between this comment I’m singing 🎵Younger Than Springtime Are You🎵, in my head. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Loved this flick as a child... silly, happy, fun, uncomplicated... just the way life used to be. When I think of "South Pacific" 🌴, the coconut bra🥥🥥 is always the first thing that comes to mind, ha ha... even if it's not in this movie, I always think it is! Happy happy memories watching this film with my beloved Mama, who loved musicals & introduced me to many classics! I miss you, my sweet Mom! 🥰😇 Just learned that Mitzi Gaynor passed on October 17, 2024, at age 93... Godspeed, Ms. Gaynor😇; thank you for your part in another happy memory shared with my hilarious Mother. It's been over 50 years since I saw this film... It may be time to watch it again, maybe in honor of them both. Thank you for making this film available free on RUclips. God bless all!😇 ["South Pacific" via Samuel Goldwyn Films] [10.18.2024]
@@maestroclassico5801 Eclipsed? _South Pacific_ was the highest-grossing film of 1958. The soundtrack was also a massive bestseller, topping the charts for 7 months..
@@VinMar-m6w Was it really the highest grosser? I'm not doubting you I'm just impressed if that's true. I really thought Gigi cleaned up. And I had the soundtrack album since I was 10 you don't have to convince me (it was frustrating though as the album was abridged a bit).
It did make it feel a little more magical but it would have been interesting to know how the film would have been received without them. Personally it doesn't bother me much either way, the story sucks you in and you shouldn't notice the background.
Like a lot of comments I hadn't seen this film until now , in my 75th year. What with the music & lyrics of Rogers & Hammerstein it made for a very emotional experience. Having lost my wife 2yrs ago it conjured up memories of first seeing her, & how much I miss her now. Some Enchanting Evening, moving me the most.
This has always been my favorite musical. The score is wonderfully memorable and the story devoid of schmaltz, based on gritty reality in put in a magical setting. The South Seas setting is always a winner and the story is completely compelling. I first saw it a s a boy in my local Odeon cinema and many years later I became a Horn player who enjoyed doing this in pit orchestra a couple of times. very happy memories of a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
I was with my father while he was in the hospital. We put this movie on, and for 2.5 hours we were transported to the South Pacific. Wonderful film. Thank you so much for posting.
לדעתי ולטעמי זה אחד הסרטים המוזיקליים הגדול בכל הזמנים ואולי הגדול ביותר. ראיתי אותו עשרות פעמים במשך השנים ולא שבעתי ממנו. מוזיקה בלתי נשכחת. גם כיום אחרי 70 שנה אני עדיין נהנה לצפות ולהאזין לשירים הנפלאים.
It was ,my parents saw it in 1958/9 at the Dominion in London, in fact my father saw it 4 times at this theatre in London alone once on his own, was so impressed by it, took my mother, then took her and her parents to see and finally took my mother and his parents so impressed by it he was, but this wasn't the version they saw, they saw the European cut, which they say is now lost, it doesn't start like in this version on the beach, but like on the stage opening after the plane ride, on Emile's plantation terrace, they also tell me it contained a lot that has been cut from this version, for example the reprise of 'Some Enchanted Evening', which is hideously cut before the 'Wonderful Guy' sequence. I don't think it contained the longer version of 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man' as per the Soundtrack album but I can be sure about that, but it was a much longer version.
Oh lord… all the biddy-curmudgeons in the comment section pretending that times were better back then. I must have lived on a different planet at that time, because I remember things being absolutely horrendous. 😂 Nice musical though.
My darling granny took me to see this film when I was a child many moons ago at Selly Oak Cinema, a leafy suburb of Birmingham, England. We so enjoyed the film. Afterwards, she put a photo up of Mitzi Gaynor in her glass cabinet because she said Mitzi was the image of my eldest sister, and she was actually. But I never quite understood why my gran didn't just put a photo there of my actual sister (who was secretly my gran's favourite our of us 4 sisters). Happy memories, though the cinema is no longer there sadly. Thank you for this video. RUclips holds such a gem of selections for us all.
I have never seen this musical even though I've known about it as far back as I can remember. It ALSO reminds me of way back when only the BEST of movies had an intermission. Refill your drink and popcorn or whatever.. and get back when you heard the theme music. Great memories of movie theaters past.
What a wonderful movie ❤. I absolutely loved it ❤. If ONLY these types of movies would come back again, the world would be a better place!! Thank you so much for sharing this 💕🙏🙏
What a great movie I haven’t seen it for years, but it is still so enchanting and wonderful. They don’t make musicals anymore, this won would be hard to not enjoy still. It’s nice to see something that isn’t full of sex, swearing and all the rest. This film takes you into a world of innocents and joy which we all now need. I love it still after all these years. 😊
Mom and dad got back from a trip to Reno and dad was over the moon. He had rested his arm on the stage while Mitzi Gaynor was performing. He was a WWII vet and a small town boy. Movies were a big deal in his young life. He could (and did) fill me in on every old movie actress we saw on series TV guest roles. He spent his Navy time in the Phillipines.
I have seen this film many many times before thru my various Iife stages a senior now but hope springs eternal, meeting the right guy and feeling younger than springtime in my ❤️ thank you
This is the first movie I was able to rent when I bought my very first VCR in the early 80s, I was born in 55’ and I couldn’t watch until modern technology caught up,,,,one of my favorite movies…….
It is one musical of a whole set offered by Reader's Digest many years ago. It is a reminder that one ought to listen to beautiful music a lot more than watching so many time wasting, low quality flicks.
Do not think of old films as dated. Think of them as a period piece. A slice of life from way back when. Also why I think removing books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be removed from children's libraries. They portray life as it was. And how far we've come. Peace to all.
This is an ancient Classic movie since my days in school in Hong Kong (1956-65). This is the first time I viewed South Pacific with much admiration. The only problem is my hearing (at a near 80) of which I couldn't hear their songs. The subtitle is good. MANY THANKS!
I do like the classic 1958 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and I have got it on DVD & Blu-Ray complete with 0:01 Overture 1:36:41 Intermission 1:36:52 Entr'Acte and 2:35:42 Exit Music Thanks for preserving this film here for all to enjoy again and again
In the1950s, my town in India had one theatre that exhibited Hollywood and British films as a morning show on Sundays. It so happened among many other films this magnificent musical was also exhibited and i could watch and enjoy it . Nostalgic memories even now when i am nearing 93.
Lt. Cable and Liat have one of the greatest and most underrated first kisses in movie history. The chemistry between John Kerr and France Nuyen is electric.
Spent the 60s watching these classics on a 9" black and white with rabbit ears antenna. Only one clear broadcast channel(NBC) and one with fuzzy reception (ABC).
I haven't seen this film for years, I'd almost forgotten how wonderful and magical it was
I'm 90 year old Brit. and grew up able to watch all the American and British Musical films during the 50s. This one that I hadn't watched since. It brought back all the words and music. A great film.
הייתי בקולנוע וראיתי את הסרט בנעוריי וכעת
Bless you my brother!I am 73 trying to prepare myself for my last journey;May God be with you on yours and guess I will see you on the other side
Yeah you will
Hi, was this good?
I 44 watched it last night with 89 granny, and here I am early in the morning searching it up
I grew up in NJ and my parents played records of all the musicals all the time. We all sang all the words. Haven’t seen this in decades. Thank you! 🌸
70 years old , grew up in a slum in north east england,mam cleaned picture house in sunderland for 35 years seen them all but had a dad and sister , feeding me johnny ray ,frankie lane ,and 50s/60s rock and roll. very poor ,but very happy.
A wonderful musical with unforgettable songs, is there anything better than this to watch.
Yes, a dame! 😆
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There’s nothing like a dame!!🤣
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I love the intro with a blank screen and the full orchestra teasing us with the South Pacific music in full theater sound. Listening with my earphones on reminds me of the day in 1956 when I first attended the showing. I miss great musicals!
A great film and it's great to watch and yet there's many others that I like to watch also. However I think this is the greatest musical of all time.
Met Juanita Hall when I was a little girl. The stage play came to Boston. She joined my parents & me at our table saying, “Is your name Juanita Hall, too” to my mother as her name was Juanita also. When the movie came out, I went many times to see it & sang along with every lovely song. Had a huge crush on John Kerr/Lt. Cable. Happy memories.
I was 9, but thought Rossano Brazzi handsome.
I am 75 years old, and this were the kind of films we grew up with. Good, clean, honest, beautiful films. Thank you for this upload.
I’m 86 years old and I love this kind of movie. So clean so nice and so beautiful music. 😂
Fantastic movie !!!
....and yet thi muical was not exactly supposed to be so wholesome when it was conceived - interracial marriages in those times?
It was beautifully pointing out, in the most wonderful way, that true love is not racist
if there was a time in our history to hear the wonderful music of Richard Rogers its now when the world feels so dark and dangerous! Thank you for sharing.
My High School did this musical in my Senior Year 1969.So many wonderful memories.Loved this.
Pretty ambitious for high school.
@davidh9638 We had 2 fantastic Drama teachers.They actually had been involved in doing script writing etc back in there day.I am a Thespian.You had to earn that back in the day.In my first year in college to get my fine arts done,I actually played Mary Queen of Scots however this was fun,but I knew my calling very early in life.I am a Retired RN.
Same here but in 1967.
@@davidh9638I've seen it as a high school musical. They play is, of course, not as detailed.
This film is a timeless masterpiece. Outstanding songs, brilliant vocals, unbelievable musical arrangements.
What a wonderful revisit 👍 I’m 71 years old 😀😀😀
Wow, what a treat, South Pacific, the full movie, this all time great musical.
I cry when I see South Pacific
I was six years Old and sung
every song and danced every
dance there are so many
messages to glean from.
Thanks ! I ove Bali and the
People especially Mitizi
Gaynor she was superb
May she rest in the arms
of God eternally...
Mitzi passed away today. Watching tonight to honor her performance and contribution to this masterpiece! 🎉
Me too!
I loved very impressed your kind rebembrance.
Me too. I loved this movie, music unforgettable all artists, Mitzy and inolvidable Roger & Harmstein.
Well known people who passed on recently:
Mitzi Gaynor
Kris Kristofferson
John Amos
Ethel Kennedy
Nellie Fornbush will live on forever! RIP mitzi....the world will never see a talent like you again. Love this musical. Aaahhh the good old days.😊
I'm 66 and all my life I've heard of this movie. Now, I've seen it for the first time. What a spectacular picture. And the scenery is so lush and rich. A masterpiece. Thank you for enabling me to see this at last.
Thanks for presenting this timeless classic on RUclips.
It's a fitting tribute to Mitzi's memory.
At 77 now, this movie made me the civil rights activist I’ve been all my life. Thank you Oscar Hammerstein!!!
love the musicals back then,,, they don't make them like this anymore...
More like nowadays there are barely any musicals at all, and when they are, the marketing tries to hide them.
@@andreabanuelosavila2317 I'm in full agreeance.
Agreed!
@@andreabanuelosavila2317There are still lots of musicals on in the #WestEnd & on #Broadway.
Great movie, saw it many years ago , really enjoyed it this time 😊
I am almost 74. I married the Joy of my life 49 years ago on the October Thanksgiving Weekend. She passed away in 2014. I paid a tribute to her by singing this song today. And then I found this movie of so long ago. My heart tells me she and I will meet again in Gods forever: Some Enchanted Evening! ❤
@BAMesquire what do you mean by on the October Thanksgiving weekend? Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is in November not October.
@carnationemerald Yes Thanksgiving is in November if you live in America. But not Canada.
@BAMesquire well I didn't know that.
No problems. You simply wanted some clarification. I presume you may live in USA! 🇺🇸 Being so I do hope and wish you/ everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🇨🇦
A school friend of mine said he was going to watch South Pacific . This was late 50s early sixties . This must have been magical all those years ago on the silver screen in Liverpool. I really got into this . Thank you so much.🙏
perhaps I saw it at the same time.....could it have been at the Regal in Norris Green?...it indeed was magical
I remember watching this on t.v. with my mother who love movie musicals. She would often get me up out of bed when my other siblings were sound asleep and she'd make a big bowl of salty burnt popcorn and I'd get a blanket and curl up on our old couch and mom would tell me all the gossip about the movie and the film stars as we were watching the show. Mom would usually fall asleep halfway through the movie but she'd wake up at the end as the credits were rolling, and then I'd go back up to bed.
Good times and Special memories with my one in a million mother .
Wondeful to see this classic for free on RUclips.
STUNNING!
Rogers and Hammerstein were the greatest!
Watch John Wilson’s Proms!!!!! You’ll love it!
It’s on RUclips free.🥰🌺
The world was such a better place to live in when this magnificent movie was filmed. No computer generated garbage that's prevalent with most films today. Wish I could be magically taken back to this period of time.
Where there was prejudice against different races, women were considered subservient & were expected to aspire to find a man and to be barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen. If they did work they basically had the choice of nurse, secretary or teacher. They received minimum wage & stayed way below the salery of a male in a comparable job. Yep, those were the "good times."
Impossible.......
@@daniila.7545 Yeah, of course it's impossible but I can dream about doing so.
A better place? No. This is a wonderful film but 1950s apartide, Jim Crow, no loans/ credit for women, unregulated use of the environment and on and on……. I’ll happily watch this from 2024😊
@@lynette6085 To each their own lynette. In the 1950's money was real and still backed by gold. Today the dollar is not money but legal tender and inflation (which is a hidden tax) is killing the middle class. Loans weren't needed as much in the 50's to live as they are today. Today the world is controlled by the elites whose rules andr egulations only benefit them and its a far more dangerous place to live in. But enjoy the movie. It's a gem.
My grandmother took me to see this at the “Pictures” in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 … at home we had only a black & white TV, which was a luxury in the 1950’s … so to see this amazing film on a huge screen ALL in COLOUR was just totally magic to my childlike eyes and the music just swept me away … unforgettable memories!
My grandmother also took me to see South Pacific, I think I was 10 or 11 I am now 76 and the memory stays with me always, I got a big crush on John Kerr.
I haven’t seen this film in many years. It's more important than I remembered. Thank you for posting it!
What a joy to see this great musical again. I am now 81 and am still enjoying it as if it were for the first time. Some of these older musicals are the best, in my opinion. 🏴🇬🇧
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. WHEN RODGER'S AND HAMMERSTEIN DIED, SO DID REAL MUSIC.
Have kept my mother's South Pacific LP which would be over 70yo. I'm 67yo and loved the movie and music. What a treat to watch this movie on U Tube 💓
What a wonderful film! The people are beautiful and the men are men and the women women. Gorgeous!
"The men are men" shows your intelligence. Most of those sailors were plucked from Muscle Beach in LA. Most of them posed for gay "muscle" mags. Director of the stage and screen Joshua Logan was a nasty queen.
Educate yourself.
ruclips.net/video/1RjUgB39fmk/видео.html
@user-yp2mw2ko9kUnfortunately it appears you are viewing this movie through your generational? prejudices. Consider what life was like during WW11. This is a great movie.
I don't know which musical my Pa loved more, South Pacific or My Fair Lady but I suspect it was which ever one he was playing on his Hi-Fi at that moment. This is a sentimental gem.
My Fair Lady. Hands down. This movie was a fiasco with those alarmingly distracting color gels ruining some of the finest music written for the stage.
Thank you, sharing. I'd say that about both my mother and dad, who were lucky to share their love of music with the three of us children... ❤️ 💜 let's forward this minus the adds with friends and family
@@infonut I've read many criticisms of the color photography, but after living in Thailand for 18 months, the so-called weird colors perfectly captured the feel of the heat and humidity and even the smell. I know it isn't possible to smell colors, but the photography in this movie is very evocative for me.
My fair lady was such a bore
possibly the most beutifull film ever made such music such voices and the actors just perfect it does not get much better than this
It was the #1 box office film in America in 1958. It had not only Rodgers & Hammerstein's best score ever, but R&H's personal attack on the racism of the America of that time which we still fight seven decades later. Yet, the film not only did not even get a nomination for Best Picture, but had to watch from the sidelines as another musical (''Gigi''), a questionable film which has a storyline about a man falling in love with an underage girl won the Best Picture Oscar. Tragic.
Says an awful lot about the mainstream values of the time doesn't it. My fifteen year old daughter has always absolutely loved these old musicals, looking forward to sitting with her later and watching this as she's never seen it and I was probably her age when I last did! 😂
It took me back 67 years . how beutiful Iwas a student in Chicago from Greece , the golden Age of America .Thank you .
Same here, I was in my early teens, “in love” with the “wrong” guy ‘til I “grew up” 5 yrs later?! So this film was just so romantic with fantastic music & the new colour effects it made my 💓pitter-patter more. Thinking back on issues in the story it must have also then been a wee bit controversial?! I must have seen the film at least 20 times but still see something new in it each time😊. Fantastic treat from RUclips, thank you. J C
The colour filters used in south pacific were very controversial the critics hated them, however the public at large loved the movie regardless, it became a box office hit ,in its day
Thanks for posting this wonderful movie. I am going to loop it and play it all night!
I've been looping "American Made" for past eight years, I've even dedicated separate TV set to it. Still great movie this one is. ✌
I'm a 89yts old. So good to be able to see these beautiful old films.Thanks for making it possible.
This is the PERFECT musical. Rodgers & Hammerstein's best score ever, as played by Alfred Newman's 20th Century-Fox orchestra with a riveting important story which attacked the racism which, sadly, we are still fighting today.
James Michener 's original book is more racist. The "N" word even got used.
No sound ?
Haven't found any of Alfred Newman's scores I don't like. Particularly am in love with "what if" from the TV version of the ghost & Mrs. Muir
@@shabbymaverick7975 Alfred Newman trivia: he reused his "Hallelujah" theme from the end of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" twice. In "Song of Bernadette" and "The Robe" . The Robe is currently on here for free. Whether he wrote the score or adapted the score like here in South Pacific, it always sounds so authoritative.
@@ceciliawee3043 There's sound all the way through this film....
I first saw this musical in a theater on the island of Okinawa in 1967. I was the only American in the theater.
I'm curious what the audience thought of it. It seems like it deals with such 1940s American provincial attitudes. Not that the Japanese don't have their own provincial attitudes. I'm just wondering how it translated.
Did they cheer in the wrong parts?
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful film. Hollywood musicals today cannot compare.
Some Enchanted Evening is one of the most romantic songs ever sung. I watched this with my grandmother and mother several times as a young boy. We all loved the film and especially this song. Years ago, my wife didn't believe me when I told her realistic the lyrics seem to me. It can happen. Strangers meet and fall in love in a variety of ways; some at first sight.
Always have loved this movie. Could watch over and over ❤️
I remember holidaying in Kauai and got very sunburnt. So decided to spend the day indoors. Ended up watching South Pacific while gazing out at the jetty that was built specifically for South Pacific. The irony was not lost on me.❤️
What a wonderful experience and memory!
I was at Poi Pu beach......was it there??
This is the very 1st time I watch this wonderful movie. I remember most of these beautiful songs. In fact, in between this comment I’m singing 🎵Younger Than Springtime Are You🎵, in my head. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The all time musical hit before the sound of music
Loved this flick as a child... silly, happy, fun, uncomplicated... just the way life used to be. When I think of "South Pacific" 🌴, the coconut bra🥥🥥 is always the first thing that comes to mind, ha ha... even if it's not in this movie, I always think it is! Happy happy memories watching this film with my beloved Mama, who loved musicals & introduced me to many classics! I miss you, my sweet Mom! 🥰😇
Just learned that Mitzi Gaynor passed on October 17, 2024, at age 93... Godspeed, Ms. Gaynor😇; thank you for your part in another happy memory shared with my hilarious Mother. It's been over 50 years since I saw this film... It may be time to watch it again, maybe in honor of them both.
Thank you for making this film available free on RUclips. God bless all!😇
["South Pacific" via Samuel Goldwyn Films]
[10.18.2024]
Mitzi Gaynor should have received an Oscar for this.
Overshadowed by Susan Hayward's showy performance in I WANT TO LIVE! This whole film was eclipsed by another musical in 1958.....GIGI...
@@maestroclassico5801 Eclipsed? _South Pacific_ was the highest-grossing film of 1958. The soundtrack was also a massive bestseller, topping the charts for 7 months..
@@maestroclassico5801 GIGI won all the Oscars, but which 1958 movie musical is remembered more? I think South Pacific. Certainly the songs.
@@VinMar-m6w Was it really the highest grosser? I'm not doubting you I'm just impressed if that's true. I really thought Gigi cleaned up. And I had the soundtrack album since I was 10 you don't have to convince me (it was frustrating though as the album was abridged a bit).
Gigi was awarded all the Oscars, south Pacific superseded at the box office
I've always loved this film, it gets criticism for the coloured filters, personally i love them
Folks forget there was no C.G.I in those days...This was how fantasy and mystery was achieved....
It did make it feel a little more magical but it would have been interesting to know how the film would have been received without them. Personally it doesn't bother me much either way, the story sucks you in and you shouldn't notice the background.
@@kristenjensen2589there certainly WAS cgi in those days. Disney was experimenting with them. They were just called "special effects".
I think the colour filters are better when seen on the huge Todd ao screen, as it was meant to be seen
Colored filters.
I don't know what that is.
Like a lot of comments I hadn't seen this film until now , in my 75th year. What with the music & lyrics of Rogers & Hammerstein it made for a very emotional experience. Having lost my wife 2yrs ago it conjured up memories of first seeing her, & how much I miss her now. Some Enchanting Evening, moving me the most.
This has always been my favorite musical. The score is wonderfully memorable and the story devoid of schmaltz, based on gritty reality in put in a magical setting. The South Seas setting is always a winner and the story is completely compelling. I first saw it a s a boy in my local Odeon cinema and many years later I became a Horn player who enjoyed doing this in pit orchestra a couple of times. very happy memories of a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
I was with my father while he was in the hospital. We put this movie on, and for 2.5 hours we were transported to the South Pacific. Wonderful film. Thank you so much for posting.
I'm 65 grew up watching the musicals love them then still watch them on utube thank you utube ❤
I used to watch this often at my grandmas house. Such memories, the songs are fantastic and will stay with me forever. Thanks for posting 💚
לדעתי ולטעמי זה אחד הסרטים המוזיקליים הגדול בכל הזמנים ואולי הגדול ביותר. ראיתי אותו עשרות פעמים במשך השנים ולא שבעתי ממנו. מוזיקה בלתי נשכחת. גם כיום אחרי 70 שנה אני עדיין נהנה לצפות ולהאזין לשירים הנפלאים.
Watching this has absolutely made my day! Thank you so much.
Thank you for this wonderful movie.
Classic songs and great performers.
Love it❤
WONDERFUL AND FREE, ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, THE MUSIC JUST THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN, THANK YOU GREAT PRINT, COLOUR AND EVERYTHING.
Thank you for another beautiful movie. It's one of my favorites ❤
Loved seeing this again, just a fabulous film l first saw when it came out. I remember being madly keen on John Kerr, although l was only about 8! ❤❤
I was madly in love with John Kerr from 1959 when the movie came out until he died. Only then did it go away.
This show ran 4 and half years continuity at the dominion cinema London, I understand this is a record for a movie musical
It was ,my parents saw it in 1958/9 at the Dominion in London,
in fact my father saw it 4 times at this theatre in London alone once on his own, was so impressed by it, took my mother, then took her and her parents to see and finally took my mother and his parents so impressed by it he was,
but this wasn't the version they saw, they saw the European cut, which they say is now lost, it doesn't start like in this version on the beach, but like on the stage opening after the plane ride, on Emile's plantation terrace, they also tell me it contained a lot that has been cut from this version, for example the reprise of 'Some Enchanted Evening', which is hideously cut before the 'Wonderful Guy' sequence. I don't think it contained the longer version of 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man' as per the Soundtrack album but I can be sure about that, but it was a much longer version.
This makes my mother so happy anytime it is on or shown . I'm so glad i can still enjoy watching her enjoy this movie
I am 61 years old and this is my first time seeing this. I knew some of the songs, and now I know where they fit. I loved it.
Fell in love with this at age twelve... eons ago
Me too!!!!
Many musical movies I viewed again and again. This is my best.
Oh lord… all the biddy-curmudgeons in the comment section pretending that times were better back then. I must have lived on a different planet at that time, because I remember things being absolutely horrendous. 😂 Nice musical though.
My darling granny took me to see this film when I was a child many moons ago at Selly Oak Cinema, a leafy suburb of Birmingham, England. We so enjoyed the film. Afterwards, she put a photo up of Mitzi Gaynor in her glass cabinet because she said Mitzi was the image of my eldest sister, and she was actually. But I never quite understood why my gran didn't just put a photo there of my actual sister (who was secretly my gran's favourite our of us 4 sisters). Happy memories, though the cinema is no longer there sadly. Thank you for this video. RUclips holds such a gem of selections for us all.
South Pacific was released 67 years ago in 1958, this is truly a timeless movie.
I’m 69 born in1955-- check your math again
One of my personal
favorite musicals since
I was a baby!
Bali Hai will always
remind me of Maui.
It calls to me always
Watched this many years ago, and still love it.
I have never seen this musical even though I've known about it as far back as I can remember. It ALSO reminds me of way back when only the BEST of movies had an intermission. Refill your drink and popcorn or whatever.. and get back when you heard the theme music. Great memories of movie theaters past.
EXCELLENT! Thank you tor the upload...And Thank you to RUclips for allowing it...
What a wonderful movie ❤. I absolutely loved it ❤. If ONLY these types of movies would come back again, the world would be a better place!! Thank you so much for sharing this 💕🙏🙏
What a great movie I haven’t seen it for years, but it is still so enchanting and wonderful. They don’t make musicals anymore, this won would be hard to not enjoy still. It’s nice to see something that isn’t full of sex, swearing and all the rest. This film takes you into a world of innocents and joy which we all now need. I love it still after all these years. 😊
Mom and dad got back from a trip to Reno and dad was over the moon. He had rested his arm on the stage while Mitzi Gaynor was performing. He was a WWII vet and a small town boy. Movies were a big deal in his young life. He could (and did) fill me in on every old movie actress we saw on series TV guest roles. He spent his Navy time in the Phillipines.
This so much better than the crap Hollywood creates today.
I have seen this film many many times before thru my various Iife stages a senior now but hope springs eternal, meeting the right guy and feeling younger than springtime in my ❤️ thank you
Beautiful melodies.. I loved it all over again.. My mum had the LP & the sheet music for the piano. 🏝
THANKS FOR POSTING IT! GREAT MOVIE!
This is the first movie I was able to rent when I bought my very first VCR in the early 80s, I was born in 55’ and I couldn’t watch until modern technology caught up,,,,one of my favorite movies…….
Saw this with my parents growing up. Some of the tunes remained with me through my 65 years. Glad to see this again at 70😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I am so happy to be able to watch this in such good quality!
It is one musical of a whole set offered by Reader's Digest many years ago. It is a reminder that one ought to listen to beautiful music a lot more than watching so many time wasting, low quality flicks.
i grew up listening to the record my mother had of south pacific i have always loved the musical.
How often I have danced at night down my green lanes at Fame Oklahoma to the beautiful music of this move . thank you so much♥️
The quality of this movie is fantastic, thanks for the upload!
Do not think of old films as dated. Think of them as a period piece. A slice of life from way back when. Also why I think removing books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be removed from children's libraries. They portray life as it was. And how far we've come. Peace to all.
This is an ancient Classic movie since my days in school in Hong Kong (1956-65). This is the first time I viewed South Pacific with much admiration. The only problem is my hearing (at a near 80) of which I couldn't hear their songs. The subtitle is good. MANY THANKS!
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The most magnificent movie with some of the greatest musical songs ever penned! Forever wonderful!
I do like the classic 1958 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and I have got it on DVD & Blu-Ray complete with 0:01 Overture 1:36:41 Intermission 1:36:52 Entr'Acte and 2:35:42 Exit Music
Thanks for preserving this film here for all to enjoy again and again
I am almost 65 and I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid back in N.C
a long time ago.
I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it.😊
Mitzi Gaynor is such a talented actress. We all love her 💕💕
This musical is by far one of the best musicals ever made!
We need more films like this.
This is the first time I ever watched this movie. Very beautiful indeed! ❤
A gorgeous print of this film. I can't say I love the filtered visual effects.
This story touches me deeply in a romantic place I had forgotten.
Fabulous script, cast, music, story - Wonderful!🥰
The movie makers wanted to cut out "You've Got to Be Taught". Rogers and Hammerstein insisted it be included. IMHO, it's essential to the story.
Indeed. The "movie makers" over the years have watered down many a movie by cutting out essential material because they feel threatened by it.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching a truly classic movie. Thanks for sharing it and making it available for everyone to enjoy!
In the1950s, my town in India had one theatre that exhibited Hollywood and British films as a morning show on Sundays. It so happened among many other films this magnificent musical was also exhibited and i could watch and enjoy it . Nostalgic memories even now when i am nearing 93.
I first watched this on the morning after giving my first child birth. Watching this always takes me back to that day in 1975.
This is a great classic movie that shall be around for many years.
Lt. Cable and Liat have one of the greatest and most underrated first kisses in movie history. The chemistry between John Kerr and France Nuyen is electric.
Spent the 60s watching these classics on a 9" black and white with rabbit ears antenna. Only one clear broadcast channel(NBC) and one with fuzzy reception (ABC).
One of my favorite movies and "Younger Than Springtime" one of my favorite songs. Thanks for showing.
One of the all-time greats. Thanks, RUclips.