Enchanted Island (film)
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Director Allan Dwan Music director Raul Lavista Country United States | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Adventure Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 8, 1958 (1958-11-08) (US) Writer James Leicester, Herman Melville (novel), Harold Jacob Smith, Al Stillman Screenplay Al Stillman, Harold Jacob Smith, James Leicester Cast Dana Andrews , Jane Powell , Don Dubbins , Arthur Shields , Ted de Corsia Similar movies Related Allan Dwan movies Tagline He dared to love a cannibal princess! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enchanted Island is a 1958 adventure film distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Allan Dwan, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, and written by Harold Jacob Smith, James Leicester, and Al Stillman. It is based on Herman Melville's novel Typee, which was also the film's working title. The title song, "Enchanted Island", written by Stillman and Robert Allen, was performed on the soundtrack by The Four Lads, who had a hit recording of the song on Columbia Records.
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The film started out as an RKO movie, but when RKO when bankrupt, it was released by Warner Bros. Enchanted Island was also the next-to-last film directed by Dwan, whose prolific career dated back to 1913. To date it also has been the last big-screen appearance of one of the film's stars, Jane Powell.
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Plot
Two 19th-century sailors, Abner and Tom, jump ship after their captain, Vangs, refuses them shore leave and warns them what a dangerous place this particular island is. They disobey him and soon discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
There are two tribes on the island, one friendly, but the other, the Typee, a cannibal tribe. Jimmy Dooley, a white man like themselves, befriends the newcomers and offers them a "hideout," but it turns out Dooley has been hired by Vangs to find his missing men.
Abney becomes acquainted with the beautiful Fayaway, adopted daughter of the chief, Mehevi, from a long-ago relationship between a shipwrecked sailor and a native girl. When a fight between tribes breaks out, Tom wants to flee but Abner likes island life and the girl. He fights with the Typee and saves Mehevi's life.
Tom takes off, determined to get away from here and back to civilization. The chief approves of the love between Abner and Fayaway and permits them to wed. But soon comes the discovery that Tom did not get away, and when Abner and Fayaway interrupt a cannibalistic ritual, they are sentenced to death by Mehevi.
When they try to run, Abner makes it back to the boat but Fayaway does not, a warrior piercing her with a spear. Abner carries her back to the boat and to Vangs, who once again understands why his sailors should never venture onto land.
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Production
Enchanted Island was shot on location on the west coast of Mexico.
References
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