Return to Paradise 1953

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Return to Paradise ★★ 1953

Cooper is a soldier of fortune wandering through the Polynesian islands in the late 1920s. On a remote atoll he comes across a crazy missionary intent upon subduing the native population. Cooper falls in love with a native beauty (Haynes in her screen debut) and leads the natives in a revolt against authority. Cliched but with nice scenery from the location shoot in Samoa. Loose adaptation of the short story “Mr. Morgan” by James Michener. 100m/C VHS . Gary Cooper, Roberta Haynes, Barry Jones, John Hudson, Moira MacDonald; D: Mark Robson; W: Charles A. Kaufman.

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