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Paradise Island

193068 minUnited States
Adventure
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Original language
English
This copy runs
69:03
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A woman travels to a South Seas island expecting to marry her fiancé and finds that he has become an unreliable drunk. A powerful local trader and an independent adventurer both take an interest in her. With property, pearls and personal freedom at stake, she must judge whom to trust in a community governed by coercion.

Cast

DirectorsBert Glennon

Historical context

This early sound adventure uses the South Seas as a Hollywood fantasy of escape and lawlessness. Its treatment of the heroine as a prize in men's bargaining, together with its colonial perspective, forms part of the period's melodramatic conventions.

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