Tiara Tahiti (1962)
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: William T. Kotcheff
Cast: John Mills, James Mason, Herbert Lom, Rosenda Monteros
Synopsis:
A former officer and public school type in comfortable retreat in the South Seas once again comes across his old commanding officer and social inferior who is now running a hotel chain.
Review:
A strange brew, with Mills in an offbeat role, making a subtle shift to a light east-London accent when the masks drop at the end, and transplanted Mexican love interest in the shapely form of Monteros, displaying more than a hint of buttock and breast in a waterfall bathing scene remarkable for its only half-hearted modesty and permissible normally only for native beauties. And then there is the customary tendency of location films towards diffuseness, and all the energy goes out of the narrative. What fun there is comes from Mills and Mason's scenes together, the former secretly wanting to be every bit the latter's equal in charm and self-sufficiency.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: William T. Kotcheff
Cast: John Mills, James Mason, Herbert Lom, Rosenda Monteros
Synopsis:
A former officer and public school type in comfortable retreat in the South Seas once again comes across his old commanding officer and social inferior who is now running a hotel chain.
Review:
A strange brew, with Mills in an offbeat role, making a subtle shift to a light east-London accent when the masks drop at the end, and transplanted Mexican love interest in the shapely form of Monteros, displaying more than a hint of buttock and breast in a waterfall bathing scene remarkable for its only half-hearted modesty and permissible normally only for native beauties. And then there is the customary tendency of location films towards diffuseness, and all the energy goes out of the narrative. What fun there is comes from Mills and Mason's scenes together, the former secretly wanting to be every bit the latter's equal in charm and self-sufficiency.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: William T. Kotcheff
Cast: John Mills, James Mason, Herbert Lom, Rosenda Monteros
Synopsis:
A former officer and public school type in comfortable retreat in the South Seas once again comes across his old commanding officer and social inferior who is now running a hotel chain.
Review:
A strange brew, with Mills in an offbeat role, making a subtle shift to a light east-London accent when the masks drop at the end, and transplanted Mexican love interest in the shapely form of Monteros, displaying more than a hint of buttock and breast in a waterfall bathing scene remarkable for its only half-hearted modesty and permissible normally only for native beauties. And then there is the customary tendency of location films towards diffuseness, and all the energy goes out of the narrative. What fun there is comes from Mills and Mason's scenes together, the former secretly wanting to be every bit the latter's equal in charm and self-sufficiency.