Thursday, December 15, 2022

BIRD OF PARADISE (1932)
























Directed by: King Vidor
Based on the stage play by: Richard Walton Tully
Starring: Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Bert Roach, Lon Chaney Jr, Wade Boteler, Arnold Gray, Agostino Borgato, Napoleon Pukui, Reginald Simpson

82 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. They try to escape but realize that "east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet."

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