PARADISE ISLE
1937

Also Known As: Siren of the South Seas
A surprisingly beautiful film, packed with footage of actual South Sea islands people in the days when they still lived in straw huts.
Exceedingly paradise-like. It was shot in Samoa.

Starring the beautiful Movita who is best remembered as the Tahitian beauty in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and as the second wife of Marlon Brando, until he replaced her with another exotic beauty, one who ironically played pretty much what had formerly been Movita's role, in the 1962 remake of Bounty. Though convincing as a Polynesian beauty, she was actually Mexican American; born on a train that was en route from Mexico to Nogales, Arizona.
Her real name was Maria Castaneda.

PLOT:
A blind artist is on his way to Java to see a doctor about an operation to restore his sight when the ship sinks and he washes up on a
tropical island. A native girl finds him and begins to nurse him back to health. However, the girl's boyfriend wants the artist out of the
picture so he can have her to himself, and the only other white man on the island also wants the artist out or the picture so he can cheat the girl out of her prized possession, a large black pearl.

CAST:
Movita ... Ida
Warren Hull ... Kennedy
William B. Davidson ... Hoener
John St. Polis ... Coxon
George Piltita ... Tono
Pierre Watkin ... Steinmeyer
Kenneth Harlan ... Johnson
Russell Simpson ... Baxter

Director: Arthur Greville Collins

RUNNING TIME: 73 MIN