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...Bonnard family, headed by a kind, understanding papa (Charles Boyer) and strait-laced maman (Marsha Hunt), includes lovable, lecherous old grand-père (Marcel Dalio), who chases after widows, Uncle Louis (Kurt Kasznar), who drinks vast quantities of white wine from a water cooler, and Uncle Desmonde (Louis Jourdan), a traveling salesman who collects ladies' garters...
Meanwhile, the Radio City Music Hall's Eastor show is accompanied by a Fred Astaire revue entitle Royal Wedding, with Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn. The Roxy, 50th and Seventh, proclaims Bird of Paradise its greatest Easter show; the South Sea island idyll involves Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, and Jeff Chandler. The Paramount offers Bob Hope in Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid, with Billy Eckstine on stage. Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward supply standard Western drama in Rawhide at the Rivoll, another Times Square house...
...rich young Frenchman (Louis Jourdan), fed up with Western civilization, accompanies a college friend, Polynesian Jeff Chandler, to his exotic island home. The kahuna (medicine man) puts a curse on him. A white derelict (Everett Sloane), banished to an outlying island for committing aboriginal sin, warns him that the native paradise can be hell. But Jourdan goes native, wins the friendship of the chief, Chandler's father, and the hand of the chief's daughter (Debra Paget...
Then, as it must in all sarong epics, catastrophe intrudes on the idyl. The island volcano (realistically played by Hawaii's erupting Mauna Loa) sends fiery lava streaming into the valley, and Jourdan's bride gets her orders from the kahuna to appease the gods by leaping into the angry crater...
Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...