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If I may defend the filters (even though I hate them as much as anyone): My books tell me that Logan's staging of the Broadway show revolutionized the staging of plays and musicals on Broadway, because he had one scene "dissolve" into another, as in movies. I think he was trying, desperately, to...

I'm probably wrong, but I thought colorization worked because the computer program can guess at the original colors by analyzing the shades of gray. Those color filters would interfere with the process, since nothing's gray any more. I guess they could devise a program that could analyze the...

And here we're in 100%, total agreement.

Yes, I forgot to say, the main number sung by Nellie on the beach. (I should have been more clear, because Emile's "surprise" is his imitation of her singing that song. Since the greatest thing about "South Pacific" is the songs, and since that song is just as well known as most of them, I'll...

The reinstatement of the "surprise" is very important. Without that, it looked like his surprise was springing his two children on her. He wouldn't call that a "surprise" in such an offhand way. The cut in the movie ended up totally changing his character and what the scene was all about. With...

But according to Joshua Logan, the director (although he could be something of a liar), he said he was told if he didn't like the results, the filters could be removed --- and he said (or claimed, many years later) that he didn't like the results and asked for the filters to be removed...

It's been said, in many places, that the filters can't be removed. So we're stuck with the silly things. (However, they're not so bad --- many movies made today are filmed almost entirely through brown or orange filters, and most people seem not to care or even notice.)

Yes, the movie with the songs in the original show order was only released in the UK, not the US.

As successful as the movie version of "South Pacific" was in the U.S., it was even more successful in the U.K. It ran five years in one theater in London. It was also a somewhat different version, with the rearranged scenes put back in the order of the original stage version. It would be...