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Enchanted Island is a american film of genre Drama directed by Allan Dwan released in USA on 8 november 1958 with Dana Andrews
Enchanted Island (1958)
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Add to a movie listEnchanted 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.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Dana Andrews
(Abner "Ab" Bedford)
Jane Powell
(Fayaway)
Ted de Corsia
(Capt. Vangs)
Don Dubbins
(Tom)
Arthur Shields
(Jimmy Dooley)
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