Island in the Sun (1957)

Directors

Robert Rossen

Cast

James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Joan Fontaine, Michael Rennie

The story

During one spring in the 1950s the complex relationships of four couples, of black, white and mixed race, play out against the pronounced social inequality dividing the ruling British elite and the slave-descended native population of a small (fictitious) West Indian island. Maxwell Fleury is a white plantation owner's son who suffers from an inferiority complex and makes rash decisions to prove his worth. He is tormented by the jealousy of his wife Sylvia, and is envious of his younger sister Jocelyn, who is being courted by the handsome, young, Oxford-bound Euan Templeton, newly arrived on Santa Marta to visit his father, Lord…

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