When Terangi is first locked in his cell, the warden puts out a cigarette on a crossbar that is about chest height and walks away. When Terangi (who about the same height as the warden) goes to the cell door, the crossbar is now chin height, and the cigarette butt is gone.
During the hurricane towards the end, the church's bell tower roof disappears and reappears.
In one of the posters, Tarangi is shown with a revolver, but in fact he never handles a gun in the film.
Film makers have nothing to do with the posters.
Film makers have nothing to do with the posters.
As the the hurricane bears down on the church with its flooding fury, some of the native islanders choose to escape the failing structure by making their way out clinging to a tied off rope. As one of the huge waves hits the rope, a couple of the women islanders get flipped over and appear to be drowning. During the flip, one of the women's sarong top gets pulled down from the special effects wave and for a split second there is a bare breast exposure which the censors didn't catch.
When Terangi (Jon Hall) returns to Manukura after a 600-mile voyage across open ocean from Tahiti, he looks the same as when he left, except for some mild facial hair on his upper lip and his chin. After a voyage that long with no way to shave, he would have had a full beard.
He might have been able to shave with his knife, though that would have been difficult with no mirror in a rocking boat. Plucking his whiskers one by one, again without a mirror (and tweezers), would have been impossible.
He might have been able to shave with his knife, though that would have been difficult with no mirror in a rocking boat. Plucking his whiskers one by one, again without a mirror (and tweezers), would have been impossible.
After his escape, when Terangi is in the small boat at sea, he looks at his spent provisions - coconut husks and tin cans. The two tin cans have been opened identically - apparently from a small hole in the exact center of the can - with four 90 degree segments peeled back toward the rim. Even with a knife, it would have been impossible to open the cans this precisely.