Green Dolphin Street (1947) - (Movie Clip) I Think I'll Be A Smuggler!

Green Dolphin Street - (Original Trailer)

In 19th-century New Zealand, two sisters compete for the same man in Green Dolphin Street (1947), a romantic drama set against a backdrop of political unrest and natural disaster. It stars Lana Turner, Donna Reed and Van Heflin.

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Big Sea

A big earthquake from MGM special effects wizards A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe has already begun in what by now must be 1850-something New Zealand, Van Heflin is rescuing Lana Turner while Richard Hart, her husband on a nearby riverboat, is slow to recognize what the natives sense, in Green Dolphin Street, 1947.

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) It Must Be St. Peter

Donna Reed as 1840-something Channel Islander Marguerite is distraught over the (Spoiler!) consecutive deaths of her parents, wakened by the waves at the foot of the cliff-side convent, chooses to approach (though it’s not strictly necessary) through the old smuggler’s cave, thus a dramatic sequence for the MGM special effects team, in Green Dolphin Street, 1947.

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Bold And Scheming

Introduction of the sisters Patourel, on a fictional Channel Island ca. 1840, Donna Reed as Marguerite with their mom (Gladys Cooper), and Lana Turner as self-assured (and brunette!) Marianne with papa (Edmund Gwenn), noticing the arrival of a hunky new neighbor (Richard Hart), not knowing yet that his father was her mother’s major first love, early in MGM’s Green Dolphin Street, 1947.

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Tide May Not Wait

None of the principals appear here (except Donna Reed and Lana Turner, as the sisters Patourel, in a portrait) but MGM’s intentions are declared, Dame May Whitty oversees the convent on the fictional Channel Island of St. Pierre, a boffo SF/X backdrop and a visit to Gladys Cooper as the mom, in the 1947 disaster melodrama Green Dolphin Street.