Bird of Paradise
Directors
King Vidor
Actors
- Dolores Del Río
- Joel McCrea
- John Halliday
Credits: 3
Summary
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
More about this movie
A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. They try to escape but realize that "east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet."