Lawrie Productions Limited British Lion Films Limited (in association with) Shepperton Studios, England
Distributed by
A British Lion Release (UK)
Release dates
5 June 1956 (1956-06-05) (London, England)
Running time
96 mins[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Pacific Destiny is a 1956 British drama film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen and Michael Hordern.[2] The screenplay concerns a young British couple who win the respect of the inhabitants of a South Pacific island during the colonial era.[3]
It was based on A Pattern of Islands, a memoir by Sir Arthur Grimble recounting his time in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a cadet officer and Resident Commissioner in the 1920s.[4][5]
Film credits show Samoa as the filming location.[6]
^"PACIFIC DESTINY - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
^"Pacific Destiny (1956)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
^"Pacific Destiny (1956) - Wolf Rilla - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
^"A Pattern of Islands, By Arthur Grimble". 24 June 2011. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022.
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