Director: WALTER LANG. Screenplay: Joseph Schrank and Robert Pirosh, Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. Photographed in Color by Technicolor by Ernest Palmer. Film editor: Rby Simpson. Art directors: Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright. Set decorator: Thomas Little. Costumes designed by Gwen Wakeling. Make-up: Guy Pearce. 2nd unit director: Orro Brower. Technicolor color consultant: Natalie Kalmus. Associate Technicolor consultant: Morgan Padelford. Technical director: Hilo Hattie. Assistant directors: Bernard Carr, Fred Fox (2nd unit). Sound recording: E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman. Producer: William LeBaron.
Songs by Mack Gordon (lyrics) and Harry Owens (music): "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias" (Grable); "O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian" (Grable); "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" (Grable, Hattie); "Down On Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle" (Grable, Hattie); "What's Buzzin', Cousin" (Oakie); "Hawaiian Drinking Song" (Hattie). Choreographer: Hermes Pan. Music director: Alfred Newman.
Copyright 13 March 1942 by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation. New York opening at the Roxy: 11 March 1942. U.S. release: 13 March 1942. Australian release: 4 November 1943 (sic). 6,716 feet. 74 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Tycoon's son falls for beachcomber's pretty daughter.
COMMENT: Everyone knows that 20th Century-Fox had the best sound department in the business. Everyone, that is, except the industry's own sound supervisors, technicians and engineers. How often did Fox carry off Hollywood's most prestigious annual award for Sound Recording in the golden years from 1929 to 1976? Just eight times, would you believe? Wilson (1944), The Snake Pit (1948), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), All About Eve (1950), The King and I (1956), The Sound of Music (1965), Hello, Dolly! (1969), and Patton (1970).
You'd never learn from this list that it was actually in musicals of the 1930s and 1940s that Fox's sound department really excelled. Take 1942, for example, a good year because each studio was able to nominate one movie. What was the Fox selection? "This Above All"!
Okay, so in addition to its magnificent sound track, what does "Song of the Islands" have to recommend it? Nothing much except sprightly performances (even Victor Mature is quite personable), a witty script, catchy tunes, lavish production values and gorgeous Technicolor.
What more do you want? Free admissions would be nice, but we've got that now with TV. Admittedly, we pay for it by sitting through myriads of dastardly advertisements, but you can't have everything!
Songs by Mack Gordon (lyrics) and Harry Owens (music): "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias" (Grable); "O'Brien Has Gone Hawaiian" (Grable); "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" (Grable, Hattie); "Down On Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle" (Grable, Hattie); "What's Buzzin', Cousin" (Oakie); "Hawaiian Drinking Song" (Hattie). Choreographer: Hermes Pan. Music director: Alfred Newman.
Copyright 13 March 1942 by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation. New York opening at the Roxy: 11 March 1942. U.S. release: 13 March 1942. Australian release: 4 November 1943 (sic). 6,716 feet. 74 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Tycoon's son falls for beachcomber's pretty daughter.
COMMENT: Everyone knows that 20th Century-Fox had the best sound department in the business. Everyone, that is, except the industry's own sound supervisors, technicians and engineers. How often did Fox carry off Hollywood's most prestigious annual award for Sound Recording in the golden years from 1929 to 1976? Just eight times, would you believe? Wilson (1944), The Snake Pit (1948), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), All About Eve (1950), The King and I (1956), The Sound of Music (1965), Hello, Dolly! (1969), and Patton (1970).
You'd never learn from this list that it was actually in musicals of the 1930s and 1940s that Fox's sound department really excelled. Take 1942, for example, a good year because each studio was able to nominate one movie. What was the Fox selection? "This Above All"!
Okay, so in addition to its magnificent sound track, what does "Song of the Islands" have to recommend it? Nothing much except sprightly performances (even Victor Mature is quite personable), a witty script, catchy tunes, lavish production values and gorgeous Technicolor.
What more do you want? Free admissions would be nice, but we've got that now with TV. Admittedly, we pay for it by sitting through myriads of dastardly advertisements, but you can't have everything!