Hurricane is a 1979 American romantic adventure film featuring Mia Farrow and Jason Robards, produced by Dino De Laurentiis with Lorenzo Semple Jr. (who also wrote the screenplay), and directed by Jan Troell.

It is a loose remake of John Ford's 1937 film The Hurricane, itself based on the 1936 novel by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff.

In the 1920s Charlotte, an American painter, arrives from Boston on the island of Alava to visit her father, U.S. Navy Captain Charles Bruckner, whom she hasn't seen in quite some time.

Charlotte wants to stay for a month on the island, chaperoned by Dr. Danielsson and Father Malone, missionaries who reside on Alava.

Dino De Laurentiis, who had just remade King Kong, was interested in doing more remakes and was shown the film by his associate, John Alarimo.

"[3] He bought the rights and assigned Lorenzo Semple Jr, who had written King Kong, to do the script.

It was part of a slate of seven films the producer would make worth $80 million (the others being Stormy Women, King of the Gypsies, The First Great Train Robbery, The Brink's Job, Flash Gordon and Ragtime).

Then the judge saw a newspaper photo of Polanski at Oktoberfest in Munich and, worried the director was on holiday, ordered a new hearing in October.

He left prison in late January, and on February 1, flew to London, then to France, meaning he missed his sentencing.

[11] Similarly, Brian De Palma also claimed that he took a meeting with the producers to also helm the project, but later rejected the offer.

"[5] De Laurentiis wanted an unknown to play the female lead, like Jessica Lange was in King Kong.

Troell felt that this massive budget actually made directing the film a much more difficult and unpleasant experience.

I wanted to complicate the characters, make them more interesting, but when a movie costs so much, a producer says you have to appeal to a common denominator.

Dino had, as his guiding light for that film, the taste of a big audience; sometimes he would touch his nose and say, 'I can smell it!'

[16] The difficulty of the experience led to De Laurentiis deciding to postpone the David Lean Bounty films.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the film as "the sort of expensively foolish enterprise that suggests that everyone connected with it needs either a new agent or a legal guardian.

To compensate for the romance's implausibility, some emotional history or psychological background was needed for Mia Farrow's character, which is never forthcoming.

"[14] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "It's shameful that more than $20 million may have been spent on this production.

"[21] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a visually stunning romantic epic that's enjoyable but too old-fashioned to be as fully involving as one might wish.

It also confirms producer Dino De Laurentiis as the movie world's least astute remaker of '30s classics.

"[23] David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "On a purely sensuous level, 'Hurricane' is frequently arresting—and sometimes downright sexy ...