1958 Enchanted Island VO Streaming
Enchanted Island is a 1958 adventure film distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Allan Dwan, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, and written by Harold Jacob Smith, James Leicester, and Al Stillman. It is based on Herman Melville's novel Typee, which was also the film's working title. The title song, "Enchanted Island", written by Stillman and Robert Allen, was performed on the soundtrack by The Four Lads, who had a hit recording of the song on Columbia Records.
The film started out as an RKO movie, but when RKO when bankrupt, it was released by Warner Bros. Enchanted Island
was also the next-to-last film directed by Dwan, whose prolific career
dated back to 1913. To date it also has been the last big-screen
appearance of one of the film's stars, Jane Powell.Plot
Two
19th-century sailors, Abner and Tom, jump ship after their captain,
Vangs, refuses them shore leave and warns them what a dangerous place
this particular island is. They disobey him and soon discover their
tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
There are two tribes on the island, one friendly, but the other, the
Typee, a cannibal tribe. Jimmy Dooley, a white man like themselves,
befriends the newcomers and offers them a "hideout," but it turns out
Dooley has been hired by Vangs to find his missing men.
Abney becomes acquainted with the beautiful Fayaway, adopted daughter
of the chief, Mehevi, from a long-ago relationship between a
shipwrecked sailor and a native girl. When a fight between tribes breaks
out, Tom wants to flee but Abner likes island life and the girl. He
fights with the Typee and saves Mehevi's life.
Tom takes off, determined to get away from here and back to
civilization. The chief approves of the love between Abner and Fayaway
and permits them to wed. But soon comes the discovery that Tom did not
get away, and when Abner and Fayaway interrupt a cannibalistic ritual,
they are sentenced to death by Mehevi.
When they try to run, Abner makes it back to the boat but Fayaway
does not, a warrior piercing her with a spear. Abner carries her back to
the boat and to Vangs, who once again understands why his sailors
should never venture onto land.
Cast
- Dana Andrews as Abner "Ab" Bedford
- Jane Powell as Fayaway
- Don Dubbins as Tom
- Arthur Shields as James "Jimmy" Dooley
- Ted de Corsia as Capt. Vangs
- Friedrich von Ledebur as Mehevi
Production
Enchanted Island was shot on location on the west coast of Mexico.
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