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Pagan Love Song (1950) |
Two South Seas Tahiti lovers catch each other's tossed coins
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The 1950 film "Pagan Love Song" is about a man and woman who meet in Tahiti and fall in love.
Mimi Bennett (Esther Williams) is a mixed race native girl who lives in Tahiti.
Hazard Endicott (Howard Keel), who owns an estate on the island, arrives on a ship and sees
the beautiful Mimi in a boat.
He tosses her a coin, they meet and fall in love, and every so often one tosses a coin to the other,
usually while one or both are swimming.
The prop coin or token is too small to identify.
1. Hazard Endicott arrives, sees Mimi, and throws a coin
2. Mimi catches coin
3. Hazard offers Mimi another coin
4. Mimi catches coin
5. Mimi's coin glows
Cast, Directors, Writers:
Esther Williams as Mimi Bennett
Howard Keel as Hazard Endicott
Director: Robert Alton
Writers: Robert Nathan, Jerry Davis, based on the 1946 novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone
Howard Keel as Hazard Endicott
Writers: Robert Nathan, Jerry Davis, based on the 1946 novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone
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