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...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...
...sophisticated. Unfortunately, the dramatic uses to which this research has been put frequently seem as conventional and naive as the old Dorothy Lamour adventures on enchanted Pacific isles. What saps the movie's authenticity even more, and drains its big scenes of any emotional force, is Debra Paget. Her playing of the native girl never resembles anything but a cute trick in a bathing beauty contest at Hollywood High...
G.I.s also have an eye for new faces, bosoms and legs belonging to actresses who mostly went through World War II in bobby-sox: Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Jane Powell, Ruth Roman, Vera-Ellen, Debra Paget...
...picture's unorthodoxy is less successful when it comes to romance. Stewart woos and wins Sonseeahray (Debra Paget*), a doll-like Indian maiden half his age and size. The love story becomes so precious that it often strains the film's fine sense of realism...
...truth is that Mrs. Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she is in the Japanese bag, an Australian saves her from death. For years she thinks he has died in her place, but after the war, having inherited a sizable legacy, she hears he is alive. Jean goes out to Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down...