Dennis Morgan wakes to discover the schooner he owns with David Farr has put out, and that Farr is now engaged to Virginia Mayo. Miss Mayo ins a former lover Morgan has abandoned, but she she's still obsessed with him. Knowing the ways of men, she offers Farr and Morgan equal shares in the cache of black pearls she has located on a distant island. When they get there, the island is run by Basil Ruysdael, who insists on sheltering the islanders from Western civilization, and his son, Lance Fuller likewise. However, Miss Mayo knows how to lure Lance on, especially when the natives begin their Polynesian jitterbugging to the drumbeat of their native hepcats.
Sigh. It's one of the movies that Allan Dwan directed for Benedict Boaeus for RKO release, and it hits just about every stereotype from the 1930s. I don't know how they got John Alton to helm the cameras -- probably a combination of money and the promise of a working vacation. Alton, being Alton, offers some wonderful images amid the hokey plot. With a topless Murvyn Vye as the native chief.
Sigh. It's one of the movies that Allan Dwan directed for Benedict Boaeus for RKO release, and it hits just about every stereotype from the 1930s. I don't know how they got John Alton to helm the cameras -- probably a combination of money and the promise of a working vacation. Alton, being Alton, offers some wonderful images amid the hokey plot. With a topless Murvyn Vye as the native chief.