Region: All
MSRP: $21.99
A melodrama of epic scope but smaller emotional dynamics, Victor Savilleâs
Green Dolphin Street displays every bit of its $4 million cost (in 1947 dollars!) on the screen but shortchanges its audience in believable human interactions and interpersonal developments in telling its familiar love triangle narrative set in faraway New Zealand. This MGM extravaganza was an enormous hit in its day, but the story hasnât stood the test of time and serves now as an overlong exercise in patience while admittedly impressing the eye and ear with its multitude of indulgences.
The daughters of wealthy shipping magnate Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), headstrong Marianne (Lana Turner) and retiring Marguerite (Donna Reed), both fall for the same man, swaggering William Ozanne (Richard Hart). Though his heart belongs to Marguerite, through a series of mischances and unfortunate happenstance, Marianne is the one who shows up in Auckland, New Zealand, to marry hi