You will enjoy this movie more if you believe Jon Hall and Lamour are Polynesians. In fact, these people are John Ford constructs which is why Thomas Mitchell plays the amiable drunken doctor. But this is a John Ford movie about justice, survival, love and more. And if you accept it with a willing sense of disbelief it is a bit of fun. There are the usual stunning Ford visuals which he always seemed to do so effortlessly. He is a master of camera placement. His sailing scenes are perfect. At one point a boat raises and flys a sail called a "mule," on a schooner. You'll never see this again. But mostly it is a movie about which it is easy to take sides. Vicious, racist colonial Europeans versus the simple people of the islands. And in the end nature asserts her judgment over all the characters.
Review of The Hurricane
