Saturday Island is a 1952 British romantic

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 directed by Stuart Heisler

Stuart Heisler

Stuart Heisler was an American film and television director. He worked as a motion picture editor from 1921 to 1936, then dedicated the rest of his career to that of a film director....

 and starring Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell was an American film actress.Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s...

, Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...

, Donald Gray

Donald Gray

Donald Gray was a South African actor, probably best remembered for providing the voices to Colonel White, Captain Black and the Mysterons in the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for being the reason that Donald Marshall Gray changed his name to Charles Gray when he became an actor...

 and John Laurie

John Laurie

John Paton Laurie was a British actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. Although he is now probably most recognised for his role as Private James Frazer in the sitcom Dad's Army , he appeared in hundreds of feature films, including films by Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Laurence Olivier...

, Lloyd Lamble

Lloyd Lamble

Lloyd Nelson Lamble was an Australian actor who worked in theatre, television, radio and film. He lived and worked two-thirds of his life in the United Kingdom .- Personal life :...

 and Peter Butterworth

Peter Butterworth

Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English comedy actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the Carry On series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio and appeared in seven early episodes of Doctor Who in 1965 as the 'The Meddling Monk'...

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When a hospital ship strikes a mine during the Second World War, the only survivors are Leuitenant Elizabeth Smythe and Corporal Michael Dugan, who become marooned on an island in the South Pacific

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

, where they slowly bond. Their relationship is complicated by the arrival of a third person, a survivor of plane crash.

Cast

• Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell was an American film actress.Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s...
  
   as Lieutenant Elizabeth Smythe
• Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...
  
   as Marine Corporal Michael J. 'Chicken' Dugan
• Donald Gray
  Donald Gray
  Donald Gray was a South African actor, probably best remembered for providing the voices to Colonel White, Captain Black and the Mysterons in the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for being the reason that Donald Marshall Gray changed his name to Charles Gray when he became an actor...
  
   as William Peck
• John Laurie
  John Laurie
  John Paton Laurie was a British actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. Although he is now probably most recognised for his role as Private James Frazer in the sitcom Dad's Army , he appeared in hundreds of feature films, including films by Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Laurence Olivier...
  
   as Grimshaw
• Sheila Chong as Tukua
• Russell Waters
  Russell Waters
  Russell Waters was a Scottish film actor.Waters was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. He began acting with the Old English Comedy and Shakespeare Company then appeared in repertory theatre, at the Old Vic and in the West End. On screen Waters generally...
  
   as Dr. Snyder
• Hilda Fenemore
  Hilda Fenemore
  Hilda Lilian Fenemore was an English actress with a prolific career in film and television from the 1940s to the 1990s...
  
   as Ollie
• Brenda Hogan as Jane
• Diana Decker as Mike
• Peggy Hassard as Maggie
• Michael Newell as Eddie
• Lloyd Lamble
  Lloyd Lamble
  Lloyd Nelson Lamble was an Australian actor who worked in theatre, television, radio and film. He lived and worked two-thirds of his life in the United Kingdom .- Personal life :...
  
   as Officer of the Watch
• Peter Butterworth
  Peter Butterworth
  Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English comedy actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the Carry On series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio and appeared in seven early episodes of Doctor Who in 1965 as the 'The Meddling Monk'...
  
   as Wounded Marine
• Harold Ayer as Marine Sergeant
• MacDonald Parke as Ship's Captain