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Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor le...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Island in the sun (Motion picture).
Corporate Authors: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors: Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979, Rossen, Robert, 1908-1966, Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985, Mason, James, 1909-1984, Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013, Dandridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965, Collins, Joan, 1933-, Rennie, Michael, Belafonte, Harry, 1927-, Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language Notes:Closed-captioned. Soundtracks in English (4.0 Dolby surround), French (mono.), and Spanish (mono.), with optional subtitles in English and Spanish.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]
Edition:Widescreen version.
Series:Cinema classics collection.
Subjects:
Feature films.
West Indies > Drama.
Nineteen fifties > Drama.
Antillas > Teatro.
Romance > Feature > Videodisc.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures, American.
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Summary:Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
From the novel by Alec Waugh.
Dual layer.
Aspect ratio 2.35:1 (widescreen).
Special features: Audio commentary by film writer and historian John Stanley -- Documentary "Dorothy Dandridge : little girl lost" as seen on Biography on the A&E Network -- Original theatrical trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] folded pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.).
Format:DVD; Dolby digital.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Music, Malcolm Arnold, conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; director of photography, F.A. Young ; film editor, Reginald Beck.