Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

brtor222 by one of the greats in the cinematography field (Freddie Young, credited as many of his films were as F.A. Young).But isn't it amazing when you are watching a film and suddenly an actor pops up who you just know you've seen before in a similar role???? It took me awhile but just before Mason turns himself in, I figured out that John Williams also played a detective inspector (although in this film a Colonel), in Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder...typecasting? Maybe, but Williams is just so good in a role like this, you can just see how he gets the criminal to confess to the crime by slow insinuation and guilt-tripping. Mason is caught up in the trap just like Ray Milland.Apart from that small side plot, the rest is so trivially done and I'm sorry but Joan Fontaine tries just too hard with all her practised smiles to look as young as Mr. Belafonte, more an aunt or mother. Why did she do this role is beyond me.This could have been greater film if Miss Dandridge's storyline had been more developed. And Stephen Boyd (although pre-Ben Hur) is equally wasted (as he was in some other Fox films (see The Best of Everything,Fantastic Voyage). Was he really considered for Anthony in Cleopatra??? (with Joan???) That might have been fun.

Nicholas Rhodes Much as I loved the sets on this one, much as I adore the Calypso music of Harry Belafonte, and much as I liked the choice of actors, the script/plot of this film was absolutely hopeless and boring from beginning to end ! We get one murder, a couple of semblants of romance, then a pairing off of Harry Belafonte with a white woman which obviously isn't going to work. All this isn't really very interesting, I would have thought that using Harry Belafonte, Michael Rennie, James Mason, Stephen "Polar Bear" Boyd with his funny half-Irish accent and others would have made for a better script but no !I thought the murder episode pretty pathetic and unconvincing, I don't care much for interracial romances and there doesn't really seem to be much passion in this film. The saving graces are the beautiful décors, the scenes from the sugar plantations and the irresistible music of Belafonte. There's no spice, no passion, no heat, no memorable scenes. You sit through the film and by the time you get to the end you say "so that was it !!!". And wonder why you just wasted your time. Even the film "Hawaii" as better than this and slightly more passionate !

Nazi_Fighter_David At the center is Santa Marta, an imaginary small island in the British West Indies… Leading the story is David Boyeur (HarryBelafonte), a homegrown revolutionary, whose skin is his country… But the issue here is not just one of color… The issue here is who is really best fit to represent the people in the colorful island? Who knows them the best? Who feels for them the most? Who's really a part of them? On the other hand, one of the other important fights, for Boyeur, is against tradition as Santa Marta shackles with traditions…Sizzling around the edges is Mavis Norman (Joan Fontaine) who happens to be in love with this charismatic leader… Mavis Norman feels that he is superior to most men… As a public figure, there is Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) who seeks the election to revenge himself upon the whites whom he now thinks despise him… Fleury is ready to use the black people so that he can still rule in that world that he still belongs to…Delving into his personal life, we see him jealous of Hilary Carson (Michael Rennie), the gentlemanly English drifter… Fleury envies him because he thinks that his wife (Patricia Owens) is attracted to him… Blind by love, he thinks that his wife had fall in love with Carson who is better suited to her… There is also Euan Templeton (Stephen Boyd), the governor's son, who wants to be married before he goes back to England… His fiancé, Jocelyn Fleury (Joan Collins), is the most difficult person to get a wedding ring on for some powerful reason… Caught in a tangle of rumors, she comes out to her mother (Diana Wynyard) who placates her by revealing a secret of her own... There's also the governor's aide Denis Archer (John Justin) who thinks that there's always a point at the beginning of a love affair where a man can draw back, where he's still safe… His love interest Margot Seaton (Dorothy Dandridge) delivers some of the film's best moments…And let us not forget the police inspector John Williams—in a really outstanding performance—who easily identifies an unpremeditated murder… Colonel Whittingham considers the murderer not strong enough to bear the burden of his guilt… But to tell you more would be to reveal too much too soon…Robert Rossen manages a few winningly odd performances from Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and John Williams whose presence give the film some strong dramatic qualities

DottiezBiggestFan I actually liked this movie. It doesn't seem to get as much credit as it should, seeing that it is the first movie to ever star an interracial couple (between the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge and the cute John Justin. Also, would've been between much older, but good actress Joan Fontaine and handsome Harry Belafonte). The scenery is beautiful and the plot is very good, but I think it's the storyline and script that make it so bad. It really doesn't count for a romance seeing that Ms. Dandridge and Mr. Justin were hardly aloud to touch each other and another character got pregnant out of wedlock, who was white. But this if you want a great movie with a beautiful tropical set (filmed on location in the Caribbean), interracial romance, suspense, mystery, a little singing, race relations, and politics, I suggest this movie.