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ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU
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CREDITS
1948, 109 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Dorothy Kingsley, Dorothy Cooper and Hans Wilhelm; Cinematography, Charles Rosher; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll; Choreography, Jack Donohue.
CAST
Rosalind Reynolds, Esther Williams; Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee, Peter Lawford; Buckley, Jimmy Durante; Ricardo Montez, Ricardo Montalban; Yvonne Torro, Cyd Charisse; Commander Harrisen, Leon Ames; Penelope Peabody, Kathryn Beaumont; George Blaine, Dick Simmons; Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra.
SONGS
On An Island With You; If I Were You; Taking Miss Mary to the Ball; Dog Song; Buenos Noches, Buenos Aires by Nacio Herb Brown and Edward Heyman; I Can Do Without Broadway, But Can Broadway Do Without Me by Jimmy Durante; Wedding Samba by Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small and Joseph Liebowitz.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"Peter Lawford plays a starry-eyed Navy flyer in love from afar with Miss Williams, a movie star working on a remote Pacific location. As the film's technical advisor, Lawford flies her to a remote isle just for the chance to dance with her. But when his plane is sabotaged by natives, they are forced to spend the night on the island and. . .well, you get the picture."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Videotape
NOTES
". . .a waterlogged romance about a film crew in Honolulu. . .it made a fortune and became one of the top-grossing films of the year."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Below-par musical which far outstays its welcome."
- Halliwell's Film Guide
HARVARD LAMPOON WORST FILM AWARD WINNER
On An Island With You was one of the top-grossing films of 1948. See Box Office Hits
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