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Title: OK movie marred by inferior video quality
Review: Joshua Logan's "South Pacific" is moderately entertaining and a reasonably accurate rendition of the stage version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit musical. The movie is hardly energetic, but does try to remain faithful to the original, including some awful dialogue, but also including the courageous theme of interracial love and marriage. Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi are adequate but lackluster in the principal parts. The use of color filters to underscore the musical numbers gradually becomes annoying, and doesn't add anything to the presentation. This is still a great movie to have, especially if you're a musical buff. The biggest disappointment (for the DVD version) was the second-rate video quality that seems to be present on all of Fox's classic R&H musicals, like "The King & I" and "Oklahoma". It's just too soft and poorly focussed. (They're probably using an inferior source for the digital transfer.)
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