Hurricane

UPC: 844503000071

Studio: Paramount Pictures/Legend Films

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Brief Nudity, Suitable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De Laurentiis' ill-advised remake of the 1938 Sam Goldwyn production of the same name. The story of the casual cruelties imposed by the white ruling class on the natives of the isle of Manakoora had the advantage of timeliness in 1938; forty-one years later, the story plays like a Gilligan's Island amateur production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the old Jon Hall role of the native lad whose rambunctiousness incurs the wrath of the provincial governor, the uniquely ungifted Daton Kane makes Hall look like Sir John Gielgud. Even the expensive hurricane finale (which ate up most of the film's $22 million budget) isn't one-tenth as exciting as the corresponding sequence in the earlier film. The saddest aspect of the 1979 The Hurricane is that it was directed by Jan Troell, who showed flashes of brilliance in his earlier The Emigrants and Zandy's Bride; perhaps significantly, Troell hightailed it back to Sweden after wrapping up his obligation to Dino De Laurentiis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Action

Features: cc

Hurricane

Format: DVD

Release Date: 07/01/2008

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Hurricane
1. The Island [13:15]
2. A New Culture [25:01]
3. Matangi [8:05]
4. The High Chief Has Spoken [7:08]
5. Tradition [7:56]
6. The Trial [14:14]
7. Charlotte's Visit [11:04]
8. Eye of the Storm [26:13]
9. Safe [6:16]

Cast and Crew: Manu Tupou  Actor 
Dino de Laurentiis  Producer 
Nino Rota  Composer (Music Score) 
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.  Executive Producer 
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.  Producer 
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.  Screenwriter 
Jan Troell  Director 
James Norman Hall  Screenwriter 
Jason Robards, Jr.  Actor 
Mia Farrow  Actor 
Max von Sydow  Actor 
Trevor Howard  Actor 
Dayton Ka'ne  Actor 
Timothy Bottoms  Actor 
James Keach  Actor 
Richard Sarcione  Actor 
Ariirau Tekurarere  Actor 
Willie Myers  Actor 
Nick Rutgers  Actor 
Nancy Hall Rutgers  Actor 
Simplet Tefane  Actor 
Piero Bushin  Actor 
Noel Teparii  Actor 
John Taea  Actor 
Taeve Tetuamia  Actor 

Country: USA