The Hurricane
1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed in Tahiti for striking a racist planter with government connections. His attempts to escape imprisonment and return to his home island and young wife are contrasted with the attitudes of the white colonials, including a humanitarian physician, a "by the book" governor and a sadistic jailer, as well as the forces of natural justice in the form of a devastating hurricane. Written by the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler
Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith · Thomas Mitchell · Raymond Massey · John Carradine · Jerome Cowan
Soundtrack Alfred Newman
Screenplay Dudley Nichols · Oliver H.P. Garrett · Ben Hecht · W.P. Lipscomb · Charles Nordhoff · James Norman Hall
Cinematography Bert Glennon
Original title The Hurricane
6.8
747 votes (FilmAffinity)
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