When this film was being made,more cheaper,economical,big,widescreen processes were competing against it.Tod A.O., Technirama,but,Cinerama is what people wanted to see.This was produced by ex beach comber and producer of M.G.M shorts,Carl Dudley.It's based on Captain Cooks discovery of the Islands.The Cinerama cameras starts with Hawaii,then proceeds to French Tahiti,Fiji,Tonga,New Hebrides.I was not aware,that, New Zealand ,not only was a part of the south seas,but, it spitted into two Islands,south and north.I also was not aware ,until I saw this film, that Australia was also a part of the south seas.The pseudo documentary has a story with different characters.Kay,played by Diana Beardmore,who saved up her trip to Hawaii,meets Marlena , played by Marlene Lizzio,on the cruise.Marlene is on her way back home,where Kay ends up meeting Marlene brother Ted,played by Tommy Zahn,in Hawaii .Will they fall in love? Poor artist Jean Louis,played by Igor Allan,is gets a Job on the Te Vega, to work his way to Tahiti,to study his art. .He meets Turia, a native dancer ,played by Ramine,at the festival celebrating Bastille day, becoming his subject for his painting.Amos Dorn ,captain of the Te Vega,played by Ed Olsen,has never seen his home of New England,since he went to sea.He goes to visit his tribe friends ,at Fiji, for dinner and the tribe entertain him with the dance to show how they used to catch and eat their enemies when they were cannibals.His experiences in New Hebrides with the Nabus tribe demonstrating Bungy jumping.An ex G.i. Jim Perry,played by Jay Ashworth, visiting New Zealand to fully explorer it ,wit the aid of his ex nurse,played by Maxine Stone ,and her husband ,played by Don Middleton.Then the story of Stephan and his daughter Anna,played by Hans Farkash and Janice Dinnen,from Europe to start a new life at Stephan's brother's sheep farm David , played by Eric Rieman, in Australia.This story has three split screen sequences,When the students,all over the outback, prepare for tier annual school play form the school of the air,in their two wave radio.another dramatic episode Anna's cousin booby ,played by Sean Scully has an accident,the screen splits up into three again.Their is a snappy song in the film sang by an all man chorus ,"Clip.Clip, clip. the Sheep. beautiful score from Alex North ,that makes you think of eternity. The d.v.d and the Blu- Ray transfers were great.Marlene ,Dianna,Ramine went to the premiere of the restored version of South sea adventures,but,non of them were interviewed.Oh!yes i forgot to mention ,Orson Wells narrates the documentary 11/1/13
Review of South Seas Adventure
