La Perle noire

Original title: All the Brothers Were Valiant

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6.2/10

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Stewart Granger, Robert Taylor, and Ann Blyth in La Perle noire (1953)

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.

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Adventure Drama Romance

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

1.2K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Final film of Lewis Stone (Capt. Holt), who died in September 1953, two months before the film was theatrically released.

Goofs
Women aboard ship were considered bad luck all through the sailing ship days. The superstition even extended part way into the modern era. Crews were known to resist sailing on ship that was to have a woman aboard.

Connections
Remake of Un soir à Singapour (1928)

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Featured review

6/10

Swashbuckling Yarn

This swashbuckling yarn pits Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger against each other as brothers who have very different ideas about how to captain a ship. There's mutiny, island lasses, palm trees, and lots of that flat, too-bright lighting common to Technicolor films from the 1950s. George Folsey received his billionth Oscar nomination for the film's color cinematography, but I'm guessing it was more for capturing some pretty ocean scenery than it was any artistic decisions.

Ann Blyth gives a sub-par performance as Taylor's wife who comes along for the sea voyage. She's a boring character and her presence teeters the film too often into romantic melodrama, when what we really want is more macho battle of wills.

Grade: B-