White Shadows of the South Seas has lots of wonderful scenery, both the plant and human kind. The women natives and leading lady Raquel Torres are not hard to look at, whatsoever. But... The ending? Awful, terrible and bad! Monte Blue is a drunken doctor who does what he can for the natives who need medical help. He also doesn't like the way his fellow white people exploit the natives. He strikes up a friendship with Raquel and things blossom into love. Earlier in the film, he told one of the white exploiters how awful he thought his practices were. Unmoved by this, the exploiter suggests he leave and continuing to do what he did would be hazardous to the doctor's health. Toward the end of the film, Monte takes up the cause again and the exploiter, keeping his word, has him shot. He dies and Raquel is shown weeping over his grave in the final scene. Not that bad a film, but the ending left me cold!
