Island in the Sun (film)

Island in the Sun is a 1957 De Luxe in CinemaScope drama film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Robert Rossen. It features an ensemble cast including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana Wynyard, and Basil Sydney. The film is about race relations and interracial romance set in the fictitious island of Santa Marta. Barbados and Grenada were selected as the sites for the movie based on the novel by Alec Waugh. The film was controversial at the time of its release.

David Boyeur Harry Belafonte, a young black man emerging as a powerful politician, represents the common people and is seen by some as a threat to the white ruling class. Mavis Norman Joan Fontaine, a woman from the elite white class, strikes up a romantic interest in Boyeur and much of the story explores the tension between these two.There is also an interracial romance between Margot Seaton Dorothy Dandridge, a mixedrace drugstore clerk, and Denis Archer John Justin, aide to the Governor. ........

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