I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Disturbing yet enthralling

Blistering performances.

This movie was Alan Dwan's 406th as director. It was also his next to last. It stars a sozzled Dana Andrews as a sailor who has jumped ship on a tropical Island and Jane Powell as the Polynesian princess he falls in love with. She is, of course, the member of a tribe of cannibals.The script takes Herman Melville's turgid novel about religion masquerading as evil and vice versa, and converts it into a brightly-lit Technicolor adventure story. Like others of Dwan's movies of the period, it combines a lesson about duality -- I'm not sure what the lesson was, but it's clearly there. Blond, slight Don Dubbins offers that contrast.Mostly it's interesting for the way cinematographer Jorge Stahl manages to light bright greens and blues in a sepia world.

Jane Powell and Dana Andrews star in this exotic, south seas story by Herman Melville. Sailor Aber Bedford falls for island beauty "Fayaway". Mean whaler captain Vangs tells the men they have only ONE hour ashore. There's a cheesy fight scene on the beach, when two of the sailors decide to stay on the island, but that's the beginning of the trouble. One of them has an infection from a knife wound, and they have stumbled into the cannibal part of the island. Don Dubbins is "Tom", the wing man. I think part of the charm of this film is that not many people were traveling in the 1940s and 1950s, so seeing a film about "south sea adventures" was extra fun. The story itself is okay. But why would sailors WANT to stay in the village where they could be killed by the natives? They had numerous chances to leave. Run-of-the-mill love story. Boy meets native girl. Boy falls for native. Can this work out, or will their traditions get in the way? Directed by Allan Dwan... he only directed one more film after this one. Pretty good film, mostly for the island adventure theme.

Jane Powell is a native chick who meets up with fathead Dana Andrews.For 90 minutes everybody runs around through the jungle thicket trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The indigenous peoples are on the loose, a ship captain wants to get underway, Jane is mauled by Dana, and the audience is slapping themselves to stay awake.Remake of an entirely different film called 'Typee' (an Indian tribe). Not much to recommend. The island warriors are terrible shots and the movie was made too early to have Jane flash her coconuts, not that she would.......... maybe she would now, but she's 87 years old. What guy would want to see that? Well, I would, but then I'm a horny mother-- well, never mind.

This film stars Dana Andrews, Don Dubbins and Jane Powell who is made up to be an island girl. Dana and Don are part of a ship where the captain is an ogre. They leave him when they stop on an island. They end up finding a tribe of people. Jane Powell catches Dana'a eye early on. Jane still looks gorgeous under all the island girl makeup she is wearing. Jane learns English thru Dana and they eventually fall in love. Dana even saves the tribe leaders life when another tribe attacks. His friend wants to leave, but there is no chance to leave while Dana is in love with Jane. Don ends up leaving on his own and Dana tells Jane he loves her. Dana finds out the killed Don because they thought he would bring back trouble. Dana breaks a taboo and is also sentenced to death. He and Jane see Dana's ship and they take a boat to try to escape. Dana gets on the ship and Jane paddles away. He goes after her as the tribe catches them. The head tribe man cannot kill them, but one of the other spears Jane in the back. Dana comes to her and paddles to the ship with her in his lap. I cannot tell you if she died or not. It's not that clear. The captain makes a statement about not marrying a couple in twenty years and that a married man makes a docile hand. That makes me think Jane survived. I could be wrong, but I choose to believe she lived. If she did, I give the film an 8 out of 10. If not, it gets a 6 because I hate sad endings. The film is never boring and quite interesting to watch.