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Virgin Island is a British film of genre Drama directed by Pat Jackson released in USA on 22 march 1960 with John Cassavetes
Virgin Island (1959)
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Add to a movie listVirgin Island is a 1959 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It is an adaptation of the novel Our Virgin Island by Robb White and was filmed on the British Virgin Islands.
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A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.Actors
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