South Pacific

Details

Release year: 2001

Storyline

During World War II, love is found between a career Navy nurse (Glenn Close) and an enigmatic French plantation owner (Rade Serbedzija), while a Princeton-educated marine (Harry Connick, Jr.) fights against his own prejudice after falling for a Tonkinese girl (Natalie Mendoza).

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

Did you know

• The musical number "Happy Talk" (sung by Bloody Mary) was inexplicably jettisoned from this version because its lyrics were deemed racially insensitive to modern audiences, despite the fact that all of Bloody Mary's dialogue and songs are written in a similar pidgin vein.

• The original Broadway production of "South Pacific" opened at the Majestic Theater on April 7, 1949, ran for 1925 performances starring Mary Martin as Nellie Forbush and Ezio Pinza as Emile de Becque, won the 1950 Tony Award for the Best Musical, Libretto and Score and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1950.

• As of 2021, this film has been released three times on home video. The Mill Creek and Kino issues present the film in its original 1.33:1 broadcast ratio. While the packaging of the Buena Vista Home Video release purports to have mastered the film in that same ratio, the DVD actually contains an anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen print. As such, when viewed on 16:9 televisions, picture information on the top and bottom of the screen is matted, as if for theatrical exhibition.

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Technical specs

Sound mix

Stereo

Aspect ratio

1.33 : 1, 1.85 : 1

Color

Color