Written by James M. Tate / 7/22/2022 / No comments / adventure , dana andrews , don dubbins , fifties , island , jane powell , ted decorsia
DANA ANDREWS AND JANE POWELL IN 'ENCHANTED ISLAND'
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Title: ENCHANTED ISLAND Year: 1958 Rating: ** |
In the 1940's, minimalist Dana Andrews seemed like a real person in movies surrounded by actors... but by the mid-to-late 1950's he sometimes looked like a hired stock actor completely misplaced, especially for the Hermann Melville adaptation of Typee titled ENCHANTED ISLAND...
Where he and equally miscast Don Dubbins are two sailors from a late 9th Century ship (captained by a grouchy Ted de Corsia) that lands on the titular South Pacific location, and they aren't allowed to have fun with the loose native girls...
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Title Caption for ENCHANTED ISLAND |
So Andrews helps an injured Dubbins, too weak to even cross a small creek, into a jungle setting where the rest of the programmer's highlighted by Dana's far too easy male-fantasy courtship with Jane Powell as a gorgeous, blue-eyed native whose leader (Friedrich von Ledebur) may or may not be a cannibal...
Yet this matters little since the ISLAND is too limited for an adventure; young Dubbins splits too soon for a buddy-action flick; the couple has meager chemistry for a genuine romance; and with natives so friendly there's hardly any suspense, making Powell's scantily-clad garb and the richly-colored pulp aesthetic the only ENCHANTING aspects on board.
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Dana Andrews in ENCHANTED ISLAND and Don Dubbins |
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Ted de Corsia and Les Hellman in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Dana Andrews in ENCHANTED ISLAND and Don Dubbins |
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Dana Andrews in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Jane Powell in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Dana Andrews in ENCHANTED ISLAND and Don Dubbins |
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Jane Powell in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Jane Powell in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Dana Andrews in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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Jane Powell in ENCHANTED ISLAND |
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