Island in the Sun
by Robert Rossen
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Actor: Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Collins, Joan Fontaine, Michael RennieDirector: Robert Rossen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Island in the Sun
Movie Review: It's Freddie Young's impressive Cinemascope photography of the tropical paradise that really dominates the film...
Summary: 3 Stars
At the center is Santa Marta, an imaginary small island in the British West Indies... Leading the story is David Boyeur (HarryBelafonte), a homegrown revolutionary, whose skin is his country... But the issue here is not just one of color... The issue here is who is really best fit to represent the people in the colorful island? Who knows them the best? Who feels for them the most? Who's really a part of them? On the other hand, one of the other important fights, for Boyeur, is against tradition as Santa Marta shackles with traditions...
Sizzling around the edges is Mavis Norman (Joan Fontaine) who happens to be in love with this charismatic leader... Mavis Norman feels that he is superior to most men...
As a public figure, there is Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) who seeks the election to revenge himself upon the whites whom he now thinks despise him... Fleury is ready to use the black people so that he can still rule in that world that he still belongs to...
Delving into his personal life, we see him jealous of Hilary Carson (Michael Rennie), the gentlemanly English drifter... Fleury envies him because he thinks that his wife (Patricia Owens) is attracted to him... Blind by love, he thinks that his wife had fall in love with Carson who is better suited to her...
There is also Euan Templeton (Stephen Boyd), the governor's son, who wants to be married before he goes back to England... His fianc?, Jocelyn Fleury (Joan Collins), is the most difficult person to get a wedding ring on for some powerful reason... Caught in a tangle of rumors, she comes out to her mother (Diana Wynyard) who placates her by revealing a secret of her own...
There's also the governor's aide Denis Archer (John Justin) who thinks that there's always a point at the beginning of a love affair where a man can draw back, where he's still safe... His love interest Margot Seaton (Dorothy Dandridge) delivers some of the film's best moments...
And let us not forget the police inspector John Williams--in a really outstanding performance--who easily identifies an unpremeditated murder... Colonel Whittingham considers the murderer not strong enough to bear the burden of his guilt... But to tell you more would be to reveal too much too soon...
Robert Rossen manages a few winningly odd performances from Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and John Williams whose presence give the film some strong dramatic qualities...
Summary of Island in the Sun
Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman. Darling and exquisitely filmed on location, this rich romantic story with it's focus on race, passion and politics, was one of the most talked about films of its day.This race-relations film from 1957, based on a novel by Alec Waugh and set on a West Indies island, stars James Mason as a wealthy man who runs against a local union leader (Harry Belafonte). The rest of the players, one way or another, deal with the consequences of their rivalry. Mason and Belafonte leave a strong impression, but the film overall doesn't live up to its own sense of significance. Joan Collins is good as Mason's sister, who worries that the contest will cost her an engagement to the governor's son. --Tom Keogh
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