Product Details

• Actors: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse
• Directors: Richard Thorpe
• Writers: Charles Martin, Dorothy Cooper, Dorothy Kingsley, Hans Wilhelm
• Producers: Joe Pasternak
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1995
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302453143
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,730 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Classic routines from Jimmy Durante, October 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: On an Island With You [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For Esther Williams fans, there's not much water ballet in this movie, but Jimmy Durante steals the show. His signature songs, "You got to start off each day with a song" and "I know darn well I can do without Broadway, but can Broadway do without me" is a must for any Durante fan.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, September 28, 2003

By 

Jane Lane's Twin "see jane write" (Hollywood) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On an Island With You [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am now an Esther Williams fan, thanks to this film. I found her to be quite a funny actress. HEE-HEE!!! I was slightly annoyed to find that Jimmy Durante was in this, though, (i can't stand him), but I managed to get along.

There were several dance scenes that I thought were uncalled for and much too long. Boredom. And I was watching this on TV, so I couldn't skip them!!

Undoubtedly, my favorite character was the beyond-adorable Penelope Peabody, a very minor person. She was played Kathryn Beaumont, best known for voicing Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Disney's Peter Pan. She was about six or seven years old, and her little British accent was too cute!

I suppose that I recommend this film to all...yes, i do!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Technicolor Fruit Salad, January 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: On an Island With You [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Take Jimmy Durante, Esther Williams, Kahn, Xavier Cugat and
JFK's good buddie Peter Lawford mix them together with great costumes,
wonderful dance numbers, all over skin bronzer and orange lipstick and you have a great-if somewhat mixed up-little epic.