Virgin Island

Virgin Island (1959)

THE BARE FACTS OF LIVING on an island of love!

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

Date of release
1959-08-07
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Pat Jackson

Casting

Interesting facts

Virgin Island is a 1958 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It was adapted by Ring Lardner Jr. from the 1953 memoir Our Virgin Island by Robb White.

Production

It was filmed on the British Virgin Islands.

Freddie Francis said he was "pressured" into doing the film by producer Leon Clore.

I don't think Pat Jackson particularly wanted me to do it. But Leon wanted me to do it. Not that there was any bad feeling between dear old Pat and myself but once again Pat was the wrong guy I think for the picture because the two stars were John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. And let's face it, those two guys with dear old Pat whose such a nice bloke and basically a documentary director, he was way off...

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