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Release Date: 1953

Cast: Hayden Rorke, Barry Kelley, Leon Askin, Paul Burke, Arthur Shields, Veola Vonn, Chuck Connors, Bob Sweeney, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo

Categories: Movies, Adventure, Action, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Adventure Comedy, War film

South Sea Woman is a 1953 action-comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Chuck Connors. Jeanine Basinger's and Jeremy Arnold's book The World War II Combat Film – Anatomy of a Genre calls the film a significant mixture of genres: tongue-in-cheek adventure, Flagg and Quirt (1926)-style service comedy, Hope and Crosby road film, South Seas, prison escape, pirate, World War II and costume drama mixing ridiculous comedy with hard boiled action in "Tell it to the Marines" style. U.S. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt... MORE

South Sea Woman is a 1953 action-comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Chuck Connors. Jeanine Basinger's and Jeremy Arnold's book The World War II Combat Film – Anatomy of a Genre calls the film a significant mixture of genres: tongue-in-cheek adventure, Flagg and Quirt (1926)-style service comedy, Hope and Crosby road film, South Seas, prison escape, pirate, World War II and costume drama mixing ridiculous comedy with hard boiled action in "Tell it to the Marines" style. U.S. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster) is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. The film alternates between flashbacks and the courtroom, as witnesses give their testimony. Showgirl Ginger Martin (Virginia Mayo) takes the stand against his protest. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met O'Hearn and his friend, Marine Private First Class Davy White (Chuck Connors), in Shanghai two weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. With war looming, their Marine regiment is ordered home. LESS