(1941)
2.5
Craig Butler
It's enormously fortunate for Bahama Passage that Madeleine Carroll and Sterling Hayden are such a physically attractive pair of stars. And it's even more fortunate that somehow the creators of this little picture have found a way of letting the stars show off their physical attributes as often as possible. That's because the good looks of these actors provides a distraction from the crushingly boring screenplay that Virginia van Upp has drawn from Nelson Hayes' book. Let's see, this one is about uprising natives, a woman with the reputation of having a past, a man that we all know is destined to be with this woman and a couple of troublesome parents, set in a tropical island. If you have a fairly smart 12-year-old nearby, she or he can take these elements and tell you what Ms. van Upp has done with them. Edward H. Griffith directs with an eye toward the visual -- not just the visual of his two lovely leads but also on some truly gorgeous scenery, shot in yummy Technicolor. The cast, which also includes such dependables as Leo G. Carroll, Flora Robson and Cecil Kellaway, goes a long way to making the screenplay palatable.
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Bahama Passage (1941)
