South of Tahiti (1941)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Brian Donlevy	...	Bob
	Broderick Crawford	...	Chuck
	Andy Devine	...	Moose
	Maria Montez	...	Melahi
	Henry Wilcoxon	...	Captain Larkin
	H.B. Warner	...	High Chief
	Armida	...	Putara
	Abner Biberman	...	Tahawa
	Ignacio Sáenz	...	Kuana
	Frank Lackteen	...	Besar

Storyline

Well, yes, the original script title is "White Savage" but this film has a different plot than the film made later with the title of "White Savage." This one has four men drifting ashore, after their motorboat conked out, on an exotic south Pacific island---just south of Tahiti---where they meet a beautiful native girl, and both she and her pet leopard on this island are just pussycats. Anyway, the island is populated by some gentle folk who don't care much for white people, but do tolerate them and even put up with some of their uncivil manners, but draw the line when a couple of them are looking for a way to make off with the island pearls, including Melahi, the native king's daughter. It, of course, turns out she is really the daughter of a white man, and this is because the censors in 1941, weren't going to give an approved-PCA seal to a film that had ant taboo inter-racial romancing as part of the plot. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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