The Hurricane (1937)
A Polynesian escapes prison to return home during a raging storm.
Dir: John Ford. Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine. TV-PG. 8:30 AM EST. TCM.
One of the few John Ford pictures I haven’t seen. This gets universally good reviews and especially high marks for the climactic hurricane. TCM is also showing prior CPODs the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty (10:30 AM) followed by its 1962 version (12:45 PM), Mister Roberts (5:45 PM), The Bridge On The River Kwai (8:00 PM), and Objective, Burma! (3:00 AM). Also check out William Wyler’s The Letter starring Bette Davis (11:00 PM) and Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1:00 AM).
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I cannot believe how young Dorothy Lamour looks in that picture; she looks like she’s 13.
Hey now! Don’t ruin it.
According to Imdb… she was 33 (or 32) when this was taken.
Scratch that… she was 23 (or 22) when the movie was made. I good at math.
And yur werdz 2.
Is Floyd drooling?
Grow up fast in New Orleans
Hubba hubba
A good movie … I love watching those special fx models back then get destroyed.
much more satisfying than cgi.
Floyd, this is a good movie. What the hell is John Ford doing making a picture about the South Seas, and with none of his regular troupe, and with a big special effects disaster for a climax? But it’s very good. Really enjoyable.