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A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Dolores Del Río
- Luana
- (as Dolores del Rio)
Lon Chaney Jr.
- Thornton
- (as Creighton Chaney)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Lon Chaney Jr., billed under his real name of Creighton Chaney.
- GoofsWhen the sailboat is joined by the natives, a female is shown holding onto the bow at the waterline with her feet (toes) and being pushed by the ship as the crew looked directly down at her. Later, a side view of the sailboat is shown and the bow at the waterline is several feet behind the area where a person could stand.
- Quotes
Chester: What do they call this place?
Johnny Baker: Probably one of the Virgin Islands
Chester: Heaven forbid.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- SoundtracksWhere the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
(1931) (uncredited)
Music by Fred E. Ahlert
Sung (with non-lexical vocables) by Johnny as Luana pulls his dinghy to shore.
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An Enjoyable Way to Spend An Hour
While the plot of this film may seem trite to us today, it was fresh and original in 1932 when it was made. This may well have been the first "throw the girl into the volcano" movie. Considering the technical limitations of film-making in 1932, the photography and special effects are quite good: the whirlpool, the erupting volcano and the river of lava.
Contradicting other postings to this website, I did not see a "rape" scene. What I saw was the male lead chase the female lead after she had been teasing him, then he wrestled her and pinned her down to introduce her to Western-style kissing. A rapist doesn't kiss his victim, and a rape victim would not want her attacker to continue kissing her.
The action of the plot moves quickly and is never bogged down by the dialog. This is an entertaining film, which you could view as you would any antique: it's charming for the era in which it was created.
Contradicting other postings to this website, I did not see a "rape" scene. What I saw was the male lead chase the female lead after she had been teasing him, then he wrestled her and pinned her down to introduce her to Western-style kissing. A rapist doesn't kiss his victim, and a rape victim would not want her attacker to continue kissing her.
The action of the plot moves quickly and is never bogged down by the dialog. This is an entertaining film, which you could view as you would any antique: it's charming for the era in which it was created.
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- Also known as
- Cennet Perisi
- Filming locations
- Hawaii, USA(2nd unit establishing shots)
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- Budget
- $752,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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