Product Details

• Actors: Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray, John Laurie, Sheila Chong
• Directors: Stuart Heisler
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: VCI Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002WJ99W2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,084 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Island of Desire aka: Saturday Island" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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ISLAND OF DESIRE - DVD Movie

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Island of Desire (1952) ... Linda Darnell/Tab Hunter/Donald Gray ... Vci (2010)", January 21, 2010

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island of Desire aka: Saturday Island (DVD)

VCI Entertainment presents "ISLAND OF DESIRE (aka: Saturday Island)" (4 August 1952) (93 min/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Good print and quality sound with breathtaking outdoor locations with this unusual plot and story --- Linda Darnell playing a Canadian Nurse, beautiful and sexy as ever --- Tab Hunter playing a US Marine who is stranded with Darnell during wartime on a Desert Island and love is in the air --- Donald Gray is shot down and enters the picture while Darnell tries to save him, while falling in love with him and throwing over Hunter for Gray --- Gray's acting gives the film more substance than it would have without him --- The film still holds up well and the cinematography is another character in the film --- Highly recommend this to one to all, especially when it was released in the early '50s, when the league of decency's was thriving and Darnell is very skimpy in her wardrobe.

BIOS:
1. Linda Darnell
Date of Birth: 16 October 1923 - Dallas, Texas
Date of Death: 10 April 1965 - Glenview, Illinois

2. Tab Hunter (aka: Arthur Andrew Kelm)
Date of Birth: 11 July 1931 - New York City, New York
Date of Death: Still Living

3. Donald Gray
Date of Birth: 3 March 1914 - Tidburys Toll, Fort Beaufort, Cape Province, South Africa
Date of Death: 7 April 1978 - South Africa

4. Stuart Heisler (Director)
Date of Birth: 5 December 1896 - Los Angeles, California
Date of Death: 21 August 1979 - San Diego, California

SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES
TRAILERS:
ISLAND OF DESIRE (1952)
SUMMER STORM (1944) - Linda Darnell, George Sanders & Edward Everette Horton
ACTORS & SIN (1952) - Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt, Alan Reed, Dan O'Herlihy,

Total Time: 93 min on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment #603 ~ (1/26/2010)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ISLAND OF DESIRE, A GOOD WHOLESOME MOVIE!, March 7, 2010

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J. Ford - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island of Desire aka: Saturday Island (DVD)

Linda Darnell and Tab Hunter play two survivors of a ship that sinks in the ocean and wind up on a deserted island together.

Linda Darnell is beautiful,as usual, in this movie and it was Tab Hundter's first movie and he does very well. Acting of all of the three main characters is very well played and the scenes of love between Linda & Tab and the subsequent triangle when a downed pilot lands on the island, are all done tastefully unlike today's movies.

The resolution and color are beautiful and the sound is very good too. It is a nice wholesome movie and can be watched by the entire family and it has a nice ending.

The only thing in the movie that I questioned was Tab Hunter's character's ability to build so many huts in so little time and Linda making beautiful outfits, one dyed red, from a loon and threads made from within the bark of some native plants. But, it isn't distracting and makes for a nice story.

I highly recommend the purchase of this movie. It is certainly worth the cost which is not expensive.

I received the disk well packaged and in a short period after ordering it. I am glad that this movie was so greatly copied on to a dvd. I am in my sixties and had never seen it before even though, when I was young, my parents, who were movie buffs, took my sisters and me to most movies that played in the late forties & fifties until we were old enough to go on our own.

Buy it if you liked the late Linda Darnell or like Tab Hunter and you won't be sorry. It is a nice relaxing movie that is not dull or boring and moves along at a nice pace.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is a DVD of a cut version of the film, February 4, 2010

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This review is from: Island of Desire aka: Saturday Island (DVD)

As indicated in the title of my review-this is a cut version of the film. Nine to ten minutes of the film are missing.Island of Desire aka: Saturday Island