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| * [[Charles Warren Stoddard]]: ''South-Sea Idyls'' (1873), ''Summer Cruising in the South Seas'' (1874), etc. | * [[Charles Warren Stoddard]]: ''South-Sea Idyls'' (1873), ''Summer Cruising in the South Seas'' (1874), etc. | ||
| - | ==Select films== | + | ==See also== |
| - | {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" | + | *[[Orientalism]] |
| - | |+ South Sea stories in film and television | + | |
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| - | ! scope="col" | Year | + | |
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| - | ! scope="col" | Filmmakers | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1922 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Ebb Tide (1922 film)|Ebb Tide]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by Robert Louis Stevenson | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1928 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Sadie Thompson (film)|Sadie Thompson]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Gloria Swanson]] | + | |
| - | | Based on "Rain" | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1929 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South Sea Rose]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1931 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Tabu: A Story of the South Seas]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1932 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Bird of Paradise (1932 film)|Bird of Paradise]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dolores del Río]] and [[Joel McCrea]] | + | |
| - | |Based on a play by [[Richard Walton Tully]] | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1932 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Rain (1932 film)|Rain]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Joan Crawford]] | + | |
| - | | Based on "Rain" | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1933 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[In the Wake of the Bounty]]'' | + | |
| - | | Directed by [[Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)|Charles Chauvel]], starring [[Errol Flynn]] | + | |
| - | | Semi-documentary | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"|1935 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' (1935) | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on the novel by Nordhoff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1935 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Last of the Pagans]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on ''Typee'' | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1936 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Isle of Fury]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Humphrey Bogart]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1936 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Jungle Princess]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]] and [[Ray Milland]] | + | |
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| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1937 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Lovers and Luggers]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Set on [[Thursday Island]] | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1937 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Hurricane (1937 film)|The Hurricane]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]], [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1937 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Ebb Tide (1937 film)|Ebb Tide]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on novel by Stevenson | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1938 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Vessel of Wrath]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on novel by Maugham | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1938 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Her Jungle Love]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]] and [[Ray Milland]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1938 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Sinners in Paradise]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Madge Evans]], [[John Boles (actor)|John Boles]], [[Bruce Cabot]], [[Marion Martin]] and [[Gene Lockhart]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1940 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1940 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Typhoon (1940 film)|Typhoon]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]] | + | |
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| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1940 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Seven Sinners (1940 film)|Seven Sinners]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[John Wayne]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1940 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South of Pago Pago]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] [[Frances Farmer]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1941 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film)|Aloma of the South Seas]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] and [[Dorothy Lamour]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1941 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South of Tahiti]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Brian Donlevy]], [[Broderick Crawford]], [[Andy Devine]] and [[Maria Montez]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1942 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Tyrone Power]] and [[Gene Tierney]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1942 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Pardon My Sarong]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Abbott and Costello]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1942 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Moon and Sixpence (film)|The Moon and Sixpence]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on a novel by Maugham | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1942 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Tuttles of Tahiti]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring Jon Hall and Charles Laughton | + | |
| - | | Based on the novel by Nordhoff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1942 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Beyond the Blue Horizon (film)|Beyond the Blue Horizon]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dorothy Lamour]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1943 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[White Savage]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]], [[Maria Montez]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1944 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Cobra Woman]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Maria Montez]], [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1944 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Rainbow Island (1944 film)|Rainbow Island]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1947 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[High Barbaree (film)|High Barbaree]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on novel by Nordhoff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1947 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Adventure Island (film)|Adventure Island]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on ''Ebb Tide'' by Stevenson | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1948 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[On an Island with You]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Esther Williams]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1948 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Wake of the Red Witch]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[John Wayne]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1949 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1950 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Mutiny on the Bunny]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Cartoon | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1950 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Kon-Tiki (1950 film)|Kon-Tiki]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Documentary | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1950 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Pagan Love Song]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Esther Williams]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1950 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[On the Isle of Samoa]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1950 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South Sea Sinner]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Remake of ''Seven Sinners'' | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1951 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Bird of Paradise (1951 film)|Bird of Paradise]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Louis Jourdan]] and [[Jeff Chandler]] | + | |
| - | | Based on a play by Richard Walton Tully | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1951 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[China Corsair]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1951 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Smuggler's Island]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring Jeff Chandler | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1952 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Saturday Island]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Linda Darnell]], [[Tab Hunter]], [[Donald Gray]] | + | |
| - | | Based on (from the novel "Saturday Island" by); Alternate title ''Island of Desire'' | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1952 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Road to Bali]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring Dorothy Lamour | + | |
| - | | Parody of the genre | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1953 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Miss Sadie Thompson]]'' (1953) | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Rita Hayworth]] | + | |
| - | | Based on "Rain" | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1953 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Botany Bay (film)|Botany Bay]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on novel by Nordoff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1953 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South Sea Woman]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Virginia Mayo]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center| 1953 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Return to Paradise (1953 film)|Return to Paradise]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on a short story by James Michener | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1953 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[All the Brothers Were Valiant]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], [[Stewart Granger]] and [[Ann Blyth]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1954 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[His Majesty O'Keefe]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Burt Lancaster]] | + | |
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| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1954 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Drums of Tahiti]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Dennis O'Keefe]] and [[Patricia Medina]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1954 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Beachcomber (1954 film)|The Beachcomber]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by Maugham | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1954 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[King of the Coral Sea]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Set on [[Thursday Island]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1956 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Revolt of Mamie Stover (film)|The Revolt of Mamie Stover]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jane Russell]] and [[Richard Egan (actor)|Richard Egan]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1956 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Women of Pitcairn Island]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1957 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Fire Down Below (1957 film)|Fire Down Below]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Rita Hayworth]], [[Robert Mitchum]] and [[Jack Lemmon]] | + | |
| - | | Set in the [[Caribbean]] | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1957 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Hell Ship Mutiny]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1957 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[William Holden]], [[Alec Guinness]] and [[Jack Hawkins]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1957 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Admirable Crichton (1957 film)|The Admirable Crichton]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Kenneth More]], [[Diane Cilento]], [[Cecil Parker]] and [[Sally Ann Howes]] | + | |
| - | | Based on (Based on the Play by) J.M. Barrie; Alternate title; ''Paradise Lagoon'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1958 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Stowaway (1958 film)|The Stowaway]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1958 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South Pacific (1958 film)|South Pacific]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on the musical | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1958 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Enchanted Island (film)|Enchanted Island]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on ''Typee'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1959 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Restless and the Damned]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1961 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Devil at 4 O'Clock]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by [[Max Catto]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1959-62 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Television series | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1962 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' (1962) | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by Nordoff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1962 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Tiara Tahiti]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1963 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Donovan's Reef]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1966 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by Michener | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1970 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Hawaiians (film)|The Hawaiians]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Based on novel by Michener | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1979 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''The Hurricane'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Based on the novel by Nordohff and Hall | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1980 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Brooke Shields]] and [[Christopher Atkins]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1982 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Paradise (1982 film)|Paradise]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Willie Aames]] and [[Phoebe Cates]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1982 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Tempest (1982 film)|Tempest]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[John Cassavetes]], [[Gena Rowlands]], [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Vittorio Gassman]] and [[Raul Julia]] | + | |
| - | | Set in Greece | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1983 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Nate and Hayes]]'' | + | |
| - | | | + | |
| - | | Story of [[Bully Hayes]] | + | |
| - | |- | + | |
| - | | align="center"| 1984 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Bounty (1984 film)|The Bounty]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Mel Gibson]] and [[Anthony Hopkins]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1991 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Return to the Blue Lagoon]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Milla Jovovich]] and [[Brian Krause]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 1998 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Six Days, Seven Nights]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 2001 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[South Pacific (2001 film)|South Pacific]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Adaptation of musical | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 2003 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Paradise Found (film)|Paradise Found]]'' | + | |
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| - | | Biopic of [[Paul Gauguin]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 2012 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[The Legend (2012 film)|The Legend]]'' | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 2012 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Blue Lagoon: The Awakening]]'' | + | |
| - | | Starring [[Indiana Evans]], [[Brenton Thwaites]] and [[Denise Richards]] | + | |
| - | | [[Television film]] | + | |
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| - | | align="center"| 2012 | + | |
| - | ! scope="row" | ''[[Kon-Tiki (2012 film)|Kon-Tiki]]'' | + | |
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The South Seas genre is a genre of literature, film, or entertainment (such as Tiki culture) that is set in the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean. Many Hollywood films were produced on studio backlots or on Santa Catalina Island. The first feature non documentary film made on location was Lost and Found on a South Sea Island, shot in Tahiti.
The genre was known for its portrayal of tropical men as savages and cannibals, and women as shapely, innocent, exotic beauties. The genre was seen as financially lucrative by the movie studios in the 1940s, despite criticisms that the genre was unrealistic and not well-informed. Typical examples include 1941's South of Tahiti and White Savage (1943).
Noted authors
- J. Allan Dunn: The Island of the Dead (1915), Beyond the Rim (1916), etc.
- Robert Dean Frisbie: The Book of Puka Puka (1929), etc.
- Jack London: Adventure (1911), South Sea Tales, etc.
- W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), "Rain," etc.
- Herman Melville: Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), etc.
- James A. Michener: Tales of the South Pacific (1947)
- Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)
- Frederick O'Brien: White Shadows in the South Seas (1919)
- Robert Louis Stevenson: In the South Seas (1896)
- Charles Warren Stoddard: South-Sea Idyls (1873), Summer Cruising in the South Seas (1874), etc.
See also
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