On an idyllic island in the South Pacific during World War II. the musical follows two cross-cultural love stories: Nellie, a brave nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with Emile, the French owner of a plantation on the island who has two children from his late Polynesian wife. At the same time, the American lieutenant Cable falls in love with Liat, native of the island. The two Americans struggle to reconcile their own cultural prejudices with their romantic feelings, while being under the dark cloud of a war that is drawing ever closer to their island paradise.
South Pacific has become a classic thanks to the themes of love, racism and the prejudices that we carry. All of this is expressed through songs like “You've Got To Be Carefully Taught” and “Younger Than Springtime”.
Find the trailer for the 1954 film: