Disaster adventure starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall. A newly married sailor is jailed on Tahiti for brawling, and his repeated attempts to escape lead to his sentence being increased to 15 years. Back on the island of Manakoora, his wife waits with the daughter he has never seen, but storm clouds are gathering that will soon change their lives forever.
John Ford grudgingly took on this screen adaptation of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's South Seas yarn about a vendetta between a native sailor and the governor of Tahiti, whose problems are solved by the timely intervention of some spectacularly inclement weather. Raymond Massey, Mary Astor and Dorothy Lamour (most fetching in her trademark sarong) star, and the resulting melodrama offers fair entertainment, some cornball Christian-pagan symbolism and a special effects storm shot on the Goldwyn back lot. Nordhoff and Hall (the father of cameraman Conrad Hall) lived on Tahiti and wrote the novels on which Mutiny on the Bounty was based.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Marama | Dorothy Lamour |
| Terangi | Jon Hall |
| Mme Germaine DeLaage | Mary Astor |
| Father Paul | C Aubrey Smith |
| Dr Kersaint | Thomas Mitchell |
| Gov Eugene DeLaage | Raymond Massey |
| Warden | John Carradine |
| Captain Nagle | Jerome Cowan |
| Chief Mehevi | Al Kikume |
| Tita | Kuulei De Clercq |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | John Ford |
| Associate director | Stuart Heisler |
