Some beautiful for its time black and white film footage of the South Seas and
its native inhabitants are seen in this film by Woody Van Dyke who managed to find time enough to put a coherent plot into the film.
Monte Blue is a doctor with a social conscience sick of how the white traders are exploiting the south sea natives has gone native himself and is living not much better than them. He falls in love with Raquel Torres daughter of the high chief who is promised to their island Deity.
A god is pretty stiff competition, but Blue eventually eventually given his medical training has some moves.
The story is not the thing though. The documentary like film footage of the South Seas won for White Shadows In The South Seas an Oscar for cinematography. Raquel Torres was quite an appealing subject for the movie camera as well.
The film holds up well even if the story borders on the old fashioned.
Monte Blue is a doctor with a social conscience sick of how the white traders are exploiting the south sea natives has gone native himself and is living not much better than them. He falls in love with Raquel Torres daughter of the high chief who is promised to their island Deity.
A god is pretty stiff competition, but Blue eventually eventually given his medical training has some moves.
The story is not the thing though. The documentary like film footage of the South Seas won for White Shadows In The South Seas an Oscar for cinematography. Raquel Torres was quite an appealing subject for the movie camera as well.
The film holds up well even if the story borders on the old fashioned.