White Heat

1934
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1h 2m

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Hardie Albright, Virginia Cherrill, and David Newell in White Heat (1934)

Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed... Read allPlantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed marriages and is equally opposed to accepting the "gifts of love" offered to him by the n... Read allPlantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed marriages and is equally opposed to accepting the "gifts of love" offered to him by the native girls. One night, after several hours of hard drinking, he sees Leilani (Mona Maris)... Read all

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Hardie Albright and Virginia Cherrill in White Heat (1934)

Mona Maris and David Newell in White Heat (1934)

Hardie Albright, Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, and David Newell in White Heat (1934)

Hardie Albright, Mona Maris, and David Newell in White Heat (1934)

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This film is believed lost.

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Referenced in Gossip Girl: The Fasting and the Furious (2011)

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One Lois Weber movie not likely to be endorsed by any wing of the Women's Lib movement.

White Heat is both sexist and racist in presentation and attitude but that may also be the only direction writer/director Lois Weber could have taken it in 1934. The ending finds Leilana, the ever-faithful stand-by-her-man island type, the only character among the leads with any character at all and that was most likely Weber's point. One does have to question Leilana's choice of men, the ever-moody, always-suffering David Newell. Surely, Al Kikume was diving off a point somewhere on this Hawaiian island.

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