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Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
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1 March 1953 (USA) morePlot:
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Mediocre musical -- yawn moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | William Lundigan | ... | Capt. W.W. 'Bill' Willoby |
| Jane Greer | ... | Diana Forrester |
| Mitzi Gaynor | ... | Rozouila |
| David Wayne | ... | Lt. Carl G. Schmidt |
| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Angela Toland |
 | Gene Lockhart | ... | Rev. Paul Edgett |
| Jack Paar | ... | Lt. Mike Sloan |
| Alvin Greenman | ... | Cpl. Kolta |
| Billy Gilbert | ... | King Jilouili |
| Henry Kulky | ... | First Sergeant Jones |
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Capt. Bill Willoby: What have you got on that smells so good?Lieut. Carl Schmidt: Clean socks!
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THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS moreFAQ
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Oddball cast fails to enliven unimaginative rip-off of SOUTH PACIFIC. Songs by the brilliant Harold Arlen and Ralph Blaine make little impression.
Mitzi Gaynor is amusingly miscast as a native Polynesian girl (with honey-colored hair?!)
Lundigan has about as much charisma as one of the coconuts Gaynor keeps dropping on his head (in real life, of course, a coconut falling on you could easily kill you). Still, the three women in the picture compete madly for his attentions while a pack of love-hungry G.I.s act really stupid every time they glimpse a woman's ankles.
Filmed in 1950 but not released till 1953 -- that suggests to me the studio knew it was a stinker.