Island in the Sun (film)
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Film poster by Jock Hinchliffe
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| Directed by | Robert Rossen |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Written by | Alfred Hayes |
| Based on |
Island in the Sun 1955 novel by Alec Waugh |
| Starring |
James Mason Harry Belafonte Joan Fontaine Joan Collins Dorothy Dandridge Michael Rennie |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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119 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,250,000 |
| Box office | $5,056,396 (US rentals) |
Island in the Sun is a 1957 De Luxe in CinemaScope drama film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Robert Rossen. It features an ensemble cast including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana Wynyard, and Basil Sydney. The film is about race relations and interracial romance set in the fictitious island of Santa Marta. Barbados and Grenada were selected as the sites for the movie based on the 1955 novel by Alec Waugh. The film was controversial at the time of its release.
The film follows several characters, black, white as well as mixed, and their relationships. It also chronicles the social inequality between the British who colonized the island, and the native population. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) is a white plantation owner's son who suffers from an inferiority complex and makes rash decisions to prove his worth. He is tormented by jealousy of his wife, Sylvia (Patricia Owens) and is envious of his younger sister Jocelyn (Joan Collins), who is being courted by the Oxford-bound Euan Templeton (Stephen Boyd), a war hero visiting the Governor of the island, his father Lord Templeton (Ronald Squire).
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