Pacific Destiny
Pacific Destiny is a 1956 British drama film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen and Michael Hordern.[1] In the colonial era, a young British couple win the respect of the inhabitants of a South Pacific island.
It was based on A Pattern of Islands, a memoir by Sir Arthur Grimble recounting his time in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a cadet officer and Resident Commissioner in the 1920s.
Cast
- Denholm Elliott ... Arthur Grimble
- Susan Stephen ... Olivia Grimble
- Michael Hordern ... Resident Commissioner
- Felix Felton ... Uncle
- Peter Bathurst ... Uncle
- Clifford Buckton ... Uncle
- Gordon Jackson ... District Officer
- Inia Te Wiata ... Tauveta
- Henrietta Godinet ... Lama
- Hans Kruse ... Kitiona
- Moira Walker ... Voice-of-the-Tide