In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Acting
Raquel Torres carries dignity the script doesn't deserve.
Production
Fake tropical sets so obvious they're accidentally camp.
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Ben Lyon
Jimmy Bradford
Raquel Torres
Ilanu
Robert Edeson
James Bradford, Sr.
Alan Hale
Stevens
Thelma Todd
Winifred Bradford
Ena Gregory
Elaine Marvin
Otis Harlan
Old Ben
T. Roy Barnes
Johnny Marvin
Robert Ellis
Larry Leavitt
Donald Reed
Kahea
Al St. John
Sailor
Dickie Moore
Junior Bradford
Marcia Harris
Governess
Addie McPhail
Rosalie
Phyllis Crane
Dixie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood squeezed this interracial romance in before the Hays Code crackdown of 1934 made such plots impossible.
Raquel Torres, born in Mexico, spent her career playing every 'exotic' ethnicity Hollywood needed—Hawaiian, Polynesian, Chinese, you name it.
US
