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THE BARE FACTS OF LIVING on an island of love!
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
Virgin Island
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Our Virgin Island, Sabbie roventi, Isla Virgen, île Vierge
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Theatrical
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Finland
22 Mar 1960
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Finland
07 Aug 1959
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USA
22 Mar 1960
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World Scavenger Hunt: #34 British Virgin Islands
John Cassavetes said:
"The director of Virgin Island didn’t know anything! He was a complete
fool. One day we went out in this boat. There were all these sharks in
the water. So I took Sidney Poitier aside and said, ‘Let’s push him overboard. Let’s really do it! Get rid of him!’ They dragged me off him. They laughed about it afterward, but I meant it."Might seem exaggerated, but after seeing Virgin Island, feeding the director to the sharks seem only reasonable.
Very forgettable propaganda on British colonialism with one of the most baffling love stories I've seen. -
terrible movie but i can't blame them for making it bc i too would instantly marry john cassavetes if i got the chance
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Absolutely awful film which makes it all the more embarrassing to admit that I would 100% uproot my life if it meant I could live on an island with young hot John Cassavetes tbh
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You know it's bad when even John Cassavetes can't improve a movie... Absolutely insufferable
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If you see think this is worth watching to see Cassavettes and Poitier share the screen, can I recommend Edge of the City instead?
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cringe colonialist movie that's basically someone's fever dream of marrying john cassavetes on a tropical island.
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Warm (literally) and fuzzy British comedy which sees posh Virginia Maskell run away to a deserted island with John Cassavetes, yes that one. It's pleasant enough if you grit your teeth through the colonial attitudes of the day, and Sidney Poitier (yes, also that one) makes the most of a thinly-written friendly islander. Notable for Cassavetes method-ing the shit out of the crazy island shenanigans.
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This is so ridiculous and I loved it. How do these people who live on an island with no running water constantly have pristine white clothing that looks like it was recently starched? Who knows?
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March Around the World 2023 #57/30 (British Virgin Islands)
I told myself I was going to cut myself off at a nice round number of 55 movies watched for this March Around the World, but I just couldn't help myself last night and again tonight when I saw the opportunity to cross off two more countries that I had never seen a movie from (and that nobody else had watched one from for the entire project in 2023). Last night it ended up being a relative dud from Sao Tome and Principe, and tonight I expected another one from the British Virgin Islands (or, at least it was as much from there as one can expect considering the fact that…
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Green Map Challenge
British Virgin IslandsA meet cute where a tourist meets an anthropologist(?), the guy buys an island for $85, the couple gets married after knowing each other for a day, they build a house, help some smugglers, the government tries to take their island away, they have a baby, the end.
Some highlights include: a horror musical sting when Sidney Poitier's character comes into a frame implying that he's going to do something bad to Virginia Maskell even though his character has already been established as a nice guy, the irony of John Cassavetes' speech about how they're just nice people trying to live their lives when the commissioner of the British Virgin Islands colony tries to take their island away.
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Rich uninteresting white characters who take an island and no one just come and stole everything they have, what utopia