Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 American historical drama disaster film directed by Victor Saville and starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed.

Marguerite is sweet and simple, while Marianne is extremely shrewd and plans to take over the family shipping business.

Sophie's mother broke up their youthful romance over Edmond's heavy drinking and lower social status.

Captain O'Hara's men catch a stow-away, Timothy Haslam, who recently killed his brother-in-law in self-defence.

Captain O'Hara finds William work in New Zealand as a school teacher, but he chooses to travel into the back-country with Timothy instead.

Timothy, who secretly loved Marianne in San Pierre, strong-arms William into marrying her and not disappointing the would-be bride.

Sophie tells Marguerite to apply the advice to her own life, as a hint that William was never the man for her and that she can make a better love.

However, as the water reaches her, she regains the will to live and climbs the treacherous rocks to the nearby convent, where the nuns take pity on her.

Their timber business destroyed, Marianne plans to move to the South Island and start a sheep ranch.

The move to the South Island is extremely successful for Marianne and William, who now live in a stately mansion in Dunedin.

When they arrive in the family house, Marianne finds William's old letter from China confessing his love for Marguerite.

The film stars Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, and features a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Street (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge.

Hart and Heflin, who played romantic rivals in Green Dolphin Street, were similarly cast in B.F.'s Daughter (1948).

It was also nominated in the categories Cinematography (Black-and-White), Film Editing, Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer) and Special Effects.

The song has been recorded by Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Albert Ayler, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane, Agnieszka Hekiert, Dick and Kiz Harp, Steps Ahead, Jane Fuller, and Grant Green, among others.