5F0002_Romantic Adventures With Islands Or Small Rivers (1940-1998)
No Ship Adventures - No Great River Adventures (All Movies in Color)
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- DirectorLouis KingStarsDorothy LamourRobert PrestonLynne OvermanHaving been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasing dark horses for the pursuit of black pearls, meets Johnny Potter, a former Navy man who has lived in a drunken stupor since being kicked out of the service. The skipper tries to convince Johnny to sign on as his navigator, but Johnny refuses to return to the sea. However, after a bar room brawl with the savage Kehi, Johnny is knocked unconscious and is shanghaied by Skipper aboard his rusty old submarine. The men are chased from the harbor by Kehi, who is furious because Mekaike, one of the skipper's men, has stolen his black pearl earrings. After running out of oil because Mekaike has forgotten to refuel the tank, they reach the island inhabited by Dea, where Johnny collapses on the beach in a drunken stupor. The skipper leaves his friend on the beach, where Dea and Koko find him and take him to their tree house to recover. When the skipper returns to the beach, he thinks that Johnny has been washed out to sea. As the skipper and his men build a boat to leave the island, Dea begs Johnny to stay, but fearing that he is doomed to die an early death from alcohol, he refuses. Finding his way back to the beach, Johnny arrives just as Mekaike leads a mutiny against the skipper. After tying Johnny and the skipper to a tree, the men steal the submarine, only to drown when they dive with the hatch open. Stranded, Johnny and the skipper continue building their boat until Kehi tracks them down and sets fire to the island. As the flames consume the foliage, a typhoon roars in from the sea and floods the island, leaving a lifeboat behind in its wake. Dea, Johnny, the skipper and Koko then board the little craft and sail off to civilization.Dorothy Lamour
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDorothy LamourJon HallLynne OvermanA young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.Dorothy Lamour
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsYvonne De CarloGeorge BrentBroderick CrawfordAn American adventurer goes to Tripoli to rescue some kidnapped sailors, but gets involved with a beautiful slave girl.Yvonne De Carlo
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsJean SimmonsDonald HoustonSusan StranksDuring the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.Jean Simmons
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartKatharine HepburnRobert MorleyIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.Katharine Hepburn
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsDebra PagetLouis JourdanJeff ChandlerAn island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.Debra Paget
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPatricia WaltersNora SwinburneEsmond KnightThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.Adrienne Corri
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJean PetersJeffrey HunterConstance SmithIn a Georgia swamp, a young hunter stumbles upon a wanted fugitive and his daughter, and helps them return to civilization.Jean Peters
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartRock HudsonArthur KennedyWhen a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.Julie Adams
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsLinda DarnellTab HunterDonald GrayIn 1943, an Allied hospital ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.Linda Darnell
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsGary CooperBarry JonesRoberta HaynesAn American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.Roberta Haynes
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsJohn AgarRosemarie StackAbner BibermanIn Haiti, two expatriates use a stolen voodoo idol to find a legendary golden treasure.Rosemarie Stack
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsGlynis JohnsRobert NewtonDonald SindenIn the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.Glynis Johns
- DirectorByron HaskinBurt LancasterStarsBurt LancasterJoan RiceAndré MorellA Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.Joan Rice
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsJane RussellGilbert RolandRichard EganTwo scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure. However, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.Jane Russell
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsAlan LaddClifton WebbSophia LorenA woman who finds a treasure is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it, and one who wants to donate it to Greece.Sophia Loren
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRobert MitchumDeborah KerrDuring World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.Deborah Kerr
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsGlenn FordGia ScalaEarl HollimanOn a small South Pacific island during WW2, various US Navy P.R. personnel pass the time romancing the nurses and the native girls while trying to avoid front line sea duty.Gia Scala
- DirectorWolfgang SchleifStarsKarlheinz BöhmClaus BiederstaedtWalter GillerMaea Flohr
- DirectorAlfred RodeStarsClaudine DupuisErno CrisaArmand MestralShipwreck. Stranded on a deserted island. It begins for them a life like in paradise. But then gangsters emerge to destroy this idyll.Yoko Tani
- DirectorRalph HabibLee RobinsonStarsMartine CarolKarlheinz BöhmSerge ReggianiA group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.Maea Flohr
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsEsther WilliamsJeff ChandlerRossana PodestàOn a small Mediterranean island live Costanza, her father Urbano, and beachcomber Moore, whom she plans to marry. Into this Eden come two plane crash survivors, supermodel Laura and her playboy friend Wally. The shapely, worldly Laura becomes a bad influence, especially when triangles start to develop. But beyond this, little mysteries lead Laura and Wally to wonder what's going on and who Moore really is.Esther Williams
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsRichard EganDorothy McGuireSandra DeeA self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.Sandra Dee
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsJohn MillsDorothy McGuireJames MacArthurA Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.Janet Munro
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartMaureen O'HaraFabianMr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them.Laurie Peters