After 60 years, they have restored the original "South Pacific" and shown it in selected theatres around the country including Oahu--most of the film was filmed on Kauai at Princeville and other locations there in 1958.
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| Waiting for Ken Clark's appearance in the restored "South Pacific" tonight in the theatre had me waiting to see him in his new, red, 100% nylon tricot Ocean Champion suit in this 1958 film set in WWII. I've posted several shots of him in earlier blog posts wearing his super silky suit with the outer layer that slides (very easily) over the inner suit. I was scanning ever corner of the large screen waiting for him to appear and watch him feel the nylon tricot suit like he does in one of the stills I posted. Earlier in the film is a guy wearing a very short satin basketball short that was kind of hot, but not nylon. He was in several scenes. Well, ol' Stewpot isn't on the screen for 30 seconds in his silky suit. I'm sure he got to enjoy several days wearing it on set, but actual screen time was 30 seconds or less. Can't stop the movie and watch him moving around in that nylon suit. It was still great to see the restored film even with the annoying filters that the DP used to try and make the movie appear more like the stage (WHY??!!). Anyway, go back and find my postings of him if you want to see more of his red nylon tricot O.C. suit 'cause you sure aren't going to see him on the big screen. |
4 comments:
Although nylon swimwear was technically possible in WW2, unless Stewpot custom cut his racer from of a spare parachute, the chance that a US serviceman in the South Pacific frollicked around in a red hot speedo is basically zero.
While appreciating the costume designers artistic flair, I reluctantly fact check this as “liar liar - Speedo on fire”
Having said that, I wouldn’t’ mind seeing a reenactment of the flag raising on Iwo Jima with a platoon of Marines clad in nothing but nylon ranger panties.... Historically inaccurate but who would care.
D.
Yes, I know and agree! What I didn't put in was that the rest of his manhood was on FULL display wearing his jeans / dungarees for the rest of the movie. Nice, but would prefer my manhood displays to be in nylon. Maybe it was Ocean Champion product placement. Although, with how little time it was on the screen, they could have done a lot better. Yes, restricted nylon use during WWII was another casualty of war and yet lived only to die another day.
Sorry... I’m still thinking about the possibility of an anachronistic version of “The Sands of Iwo Jima”
“After dispatching the Japanese Imperial Army on their way up the hill, the platoon strip off their scratchy fatigues, right down to their GI issued combat green Sikies. With some helpful stage choreography from the attending AP photographer, they immortally hoist Old Glory upright and in the process, reveal for the very first time in the South Pacific, the phenomenon known as The Visible Panty Line across all their nylon draped upper thighs.
Fresh with the smell of victory and the sight of their own nylon covered butts, they return to the base camp and celebrate with a spontaneous display of Roman-Greco wrestling where the greatest battle that day was fought by every man as they fought to control the inevitable “tenting” caused by all that Mano y Mano action and the accompanying and inevitable double nylon friction”
Now double nylon tenting is what I want to see in a video.
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