Emile finally confesses his love to Nellie (through a lovely song: Some enchanted evening). They’ve been friends only about two weeks, but are very attracted to each other. Nellie is, however (and the entire camp seems to know this) in love with a French planter called Emile de Becque (a delectable Rossano Brazzi). Of these, Ensign Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) is among the most popular, especially with the enterprising and completely madcap Luther Billis (Ray Walston). But the island Cable’s landed on is occupied by a bunch of sailors who seem to have little to do except mourn the lack of dames, manufacture grass skirts, banter with a local wheeler-dealer called Bloody Mary (Juanita Hall), and ogle the nurses stationed on the island. No chance of song and dance here, it seems. His mission is clear enough: get on to one of the nearby islands that are held by the Japanese, and keep a watch on Japanese naval activities in the bottleneck between the islands, so that Allied forces know exactly when and where to attack. Lt Joseph Cable (John Kerr) of the US Marines is sent off to a small island in the South Pacific, with orders to boost military intelligence in the area. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and based on James Michener’s stories of the South Pacific. First it was Usne Kaha Tha, then Hum Dono and in the middle I even managed to fit in Random Harvest, which though not exactly set during a war, was about a romance which began on the day World War I ended. I seem to be on a `love in the time of war’ roll.
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