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South Pacific
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

There's zero cinematic grace in Joshua Logan's 1958 adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, and the cast--Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, Ray Walston, and John Kerr--seems to have been collected from a home for the chronically uncharismatic. But there is that maddeningly catchy score, plus Leon Shamroy's Technicolor views of the islands. With Juanita Hall. 157 min. --Dave Kehr

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