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It was adapted as a made-for television film 2001 filmed in Queensland and Moorea.Īmerican television producer Bob Mann wanted Michener to co-create a weekly television anthology series from Tales of the South Pacific, with Michener as narrator. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific was made into a feature film in 1958 with scenes shot on Kauai. The character of Emile de Becque in Michener's short story has eight mixed-race daughters by four different women, none of whom he married, when he meets the nurse Ensign Nellie Forbush in the musical, he has two children (one daughter and one son) by a Polynesian woman whom he had married but who had died. The character of Liat, Cable's lover in the film, is a much more sophisticated and intelligent young woman in the book, but is reduced to a childlike caricature in the movie. He is never seen by the other characters in Michener's short story until a search-and-rescue party finds his head impaled on a stake.
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In Michener's short story "The Cave" the coastwatcher is an English expatriate assisted by native islanders, and is a disembodied voice on a short-wave radio identifying himself only as "The Remittance Man". Cable) assisted by an expatriate French plantation owner (Emile de Becque). For example, the coastwatcher in the musical is an American Marine (Lt. Some of the characters from the stories were merged and simplified to serve the format of the musical. Characters from other stories, such as Bill Harbison, Bus Adams, and Luther Billis, play minor or supporting roles. In particular, the stories used were "Fo' Dolla'", about Bloody Mary, Liat, and Lieutenant Joe Cable and "Our Heroine", about Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque. The highly successful musical play South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, was based on the stories in Tales of the South Pacific. Navy, most of the action is shore-based, and none of the stories concerns ships larger than a Landing Craft Infantry. Although the stories are primarily about the U.S. The chronology of the stories begins with the building of an airfield on Norfolk Island before the Battle of the Coral Sea, in 1942, and goes through the early 1944 invasion of one of Michener's fictional islands. The focus of the stories is, however, the interactions between Americans and a variety of colonial, immigrant, and indigenous characters. One plot line in particular is the preparation for and execution of a fictitious amphibious invasion, code-named "Alligator". The stories are interconnected by recurring characters and several loose plot lines. Michener as narrator gives a first-person voice to several of the stories as an unnamed "Commander", performing duties similar to those that he himself performed during World War II. The stories take place in the environs of the Coral Sea and the Solomon Islands.