Tiki Central / General Tiki / Polynesian movie, The Hurricane
Post #388664 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jun 22, 2008 6:58 AM
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That film IS a classic of Polynesian pop cinema, based on a story by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty", who actor Jon Hal was related to. It inspired several Pre-Tiki nightspots, like this one on Catalina, which was used as one of the locations for the film (just like the first "Mutiny" film version, which spawned "Christian's Hut" there):
...and one in San Francisco (matchbook, anybody?) KailuaGeoff had this to say about it: "As for Jon Hall's movies, I have the Hurricane, Aloma of the South Seas, The Tuttles of Tahiti (based on another story by Nordoff and Hall) and South of Pago-Pago....the Hurricane was released a few years ago as an excellent DVD, but it doesn't appear to be available anymore and the price of used copies has been sky high on ebay.....The Hurricane is Hall's best film by far and I really like South of Pago-Pago." Here is his whole post, with more info, showing how the film, through Jon Hall, ties into Frances Langford and her "Outrigger" Restaurant in Floriida: WHY do some images show up in small thumb nail size in some posts lately? That is just one stage better than blue question marks! [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-06-22 07:21 ] |
