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CREDITS
1950, 76 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Robert Alton; Screenplay; Robert Nathan and Jerry Davis; Cinematography, Charles Rosher; Choreography, Robert Alton.
CAST
Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Rita Moreno, Minna Gombell, Charles Mau, Philip Costa, Dione Leilani, Charles Freund.
SONGS
Pagan Love Song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; The Sea Of the Moon; The House of Singing Bamboo; Singing In the Sun; Tahiti; Why Is Love So Crazy?; Etiquette by Freed and Harry Warren; Mata by Roger Edens.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"Howard Keel. . .plays a schoolteacher from Ohio who has inherited a run-down plantation in Tahiti. At first, he mistakes the sun-bronzed, sarong-clad Esther Williams for a native, but soon fall in love both with her and the island way of life. How they resolve their differences - some comic, some dramatic - makes for a perfect romantic idyll on an island paradise."
- Liner Notes from the Turner/MGM/UA Videotape
NOTES
"Despite its colorful Tahitian settings, the attractive presences of Esther Williams and Howard Keel, and a passable score. . .Pagan Love Song was, artistically, the least successful of Freed's films, even though it grossed over $3,200,000 on the marquee value of Williams's name."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Very mild musical potboiler using familiar talents."
- Halliwell's Film Guide
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