White Shadows in the South Seas (MOD) "Independent" Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi

Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi

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She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage

and Jude Law put memorable imprints on Holmes and Watson in this bold new reimagining that makes the legendary sleuth a daring man of action as well as a peerless man of intellect

White Shadows in the South Seas (MOD) "Independent" Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("GigiFilmed on location in Tahiti, this unique drama combining documentary sensibilities with grand Hollywood storytelling explores the tolls that Western "civilization" drugs, alcohol, prostitution take on the natives of a Polynesian island. Matthew Lloyd (Monte Blue) has drifted away from a respectable career as a physician and lives a mediocre existence on a Polynesian island where pearl trader Sebastian (Robert Anderson) and his associates recklessly