The Hurricane (1937)

The Hurricane (1937) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1937 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford

Written By:
Dudley Nichols
Oliver H.P. Garrett

Actors:
Dorothy Lamour ..... Marama
Jon Hall ..... Terangi
Mary Astor ..... Mme. DeLaage
C. Aubrey Smith ..... Father Paul
Thomas Mitchell ..... Dr. Kersaint
Raymond Massey ..... DeLaage
John Carradine ..... Warden
Jerome Cowan ..... Captain Nagle
Al Kikume ..... Chief Mehevi
Kuulei De Clercq ..... Tita
Layne Tom Jr. ..... Mako
Mamo Clark ..... Hitia
Movita ..... Arai (as Movita Castenada)

Synopsis:

In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed in Tahiti for striking a racist planter with government connections. His attempts to escape imprisonment and return to his home island and young wife are contrasted with the attitudes of the white colonials, including a humanitarian physician, a 'by the book' governor and a sadistic jailer, as well as the forces of natural justice in the form of a devastating hurricane.

A priest finds his faith tested when he's assigned to investigate a possible case of divine intervention. Rev. Frank Shore (Ed Harris) is a Catholic priest who works as a postulator, a church official who investigates reports of holy miracles to determine their veracity. Some time back, one of Shore's investigations had ugly repercussions, and now he devotes his time to running a soup kitchen. But he's called back to service by Bishop Cahill (Charles Haid) when a number of Catholics begin calling for the canonization of the late Helen O'Regan, who is alleged to have performed miracles and whose statue is said to weep tears of blood. Shore begins digging into O'Regan's life and the miracles she is supposed to have performed; in his travels, he meets Maria (Caterina Scorsone), a teenage girl who was supposedly healed by O'Regan, and Roxane (Anne Heche), O'Regan's daughter, who was abandoned by her mother, wants nothing to do with her story, and has given up her belief in God. While investigating the miracle of O'Regan's statue, Shore witnesses the bleeding himself and tells the church that he believes the claims are legitimate. However, this view leads to angry reprisals from Archbishop Werner (Armin Mueller-Stahl); Shore's story is not given any greater credence when he become romantically involved with Roxanne. The Third Miracle was released only a few months after Stigmata, another story of Catholic priests investigating allegations of a modern-day miracle, not the sort of subject one might have expected to become a trend.

A Polynesian sailor who's unjustly imprisoned after a saloon brawl is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 24 November, 2019.