The blonde Goddess of the fifties Virginia Mayo became a sexy symbol on popular imaginary herein after, making great movies like "The Flame and the Arrow" "Captain Horatio Hornblower" "The Iron Mistress" "The Prouder Ones" and so for, holder of a stunning beauty and slim, also a female fatale in several roles, here in "The Pearls of the South Pacific" a B-movie from RKO, such low budges picture with a secondary casting make some damages at his image as a movie of a sole star.
In adventures at South Seas the greedy and gorgeous Rita (Virginia Mayo) enters in a searching for an uncharted Polynesian island that has a valuable black pearls with two rough sailors the reliable Dan Merrill (Dennis Morgan) and the bleak Bully Hague (David Farrar) that she has romantic triangle affair ongoing, in the island a white old man Taun Michael (Basil Ruysdael) that became the high priest of this Polynesian natives who used to worship a Moai stone statue of the God Tagaloa his white son George (Lance Fuller) will marry a local native Momu (Lisa Montel) halted by the arrival of a small ship of the strangers, Taun Michael rejects any engagement with white people point out they bring diseases and downfall letting the group corned, thus Rita introduces herself as Christian Missionary that coming in peace, the distrustful high priest just allowed Rita drop off and delivery some supplies to they can go away soon as can.
On the island Rita enchants the naïve George aiming for to pinpoint where the black pearls coming from, the duped guy ends up yielding to the temptation displaying a lagoon where the black pearls are hidden, nonetheless a giant octopus is lurking underneath on the clean waters, meanwhile Taun had a stroke laying down at bed with Rita taking care him, afterwards Dan and Bully inebriates George and some natives, sadly after Bully got the black pearls stab George letting him agonizing near death, on the temple all natives are invites to they departure in a celebration watered by alcohol, then appears the Chief Halemano (Murvyn Vye) with the George body almost dead asking for a sacrifice to placate the wrath of God Tagaloa, the chosen is the blonde Rita.
Enjoyable picture for those afternoon matinee, where Virginia Mayo gracefully exposes her sexy legs, an exotic adventure at south seas with strong similitude of "Reap the Wild Wind" with octopus at lagoon, has many elements to enjoy adventure seekers like me, a slight underrated indeed!!
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.5.
