Storm Over Jamaica (1958)

Interesting facts

• Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Passionate Summer is a 1958 British drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell. The screenplay was by Joan Henry based on the 1949 novel The Shadow and the Peak by Richard Mason.

Production

In March 1958 it was announced the film would be made in Jamaica and at Pinewood Studios under the title of Passionate Summer starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell. McKenna was coming off two large hits, A Town Like Alice (1956) and Carve Her Name with Pride (1958). She and Bill Travers had married in real life in 1957.

McKenna was pregnant during filming and it would be the last film she made for Rank (although she turned down a movie they wanted her to do afterwards).

Director Rudolph Cartier was under contract to the BBC but was released to Rank to make the film.

Neither of us [his wife Virginia McKenna] cared very much for Passionate Summer. Cartier was already an important person in television — that was how he got Passionate Summer – but I’m not sure that he translated well to the big screen. He did a lot of rehearsal, and, by this time, I’d begun to shed the idea of doing a tremendous amount of rehearsal.

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