American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
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Shirley MacLaine as Anna Vorontosov
Laurence Harvey as Paul Lathrope
Jack Hawkins as William W.J. Abercrombie
Nobu McCarthy as Whareparita
Ronald Long as Headmaster Reardon
Norah Howard as Mrs. Cutter
Juano Hernández as Chief Rauhuia
Edmund Vargas as Matawhero (uncredited)
Neil Woodward as Mark Cutter (uncredited)
Lisa Sitjar as Hinewaka (uncredited)
Alan Roberts as Seven (uncredited)
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