Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise

1932 · 1 hr 20 min · Passed

Adventure, Drama, Romance

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."

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