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Having been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasing dark... See more »
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Dea
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Johnny Potter
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Skipper Joe
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Mekaike
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Kehi
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Doctor
John Rogers ...
Bar keep
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Dea's father
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Dea, as a child
Angelo Cruz ...
Kehi's bodyguard
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Mate
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Cook
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Kehi's bodyguard
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Lila Finn ...
Stunts (uncredited)
Koko ...
Koko (uncredited)

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Louis King

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Steve Fisher ... (story)
 
Leonard Lee ... (contributor to screenplay construction) (uncredited)
 
Allen Rivkin ... ()
 
Bobby Vernon ... (contributor to screenplay construction) (uncredited)

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William LeBaron ... executive producer (uncredited)
Anthony Veiller ... producer

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Friedrich Hollaender ... (as Frederick Hollander)

Cinematography by

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Allen M. Davey
William C. Mellor

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Alma Macrorie

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Henri Jaffa ... associate color director: Technicolor
Natalie Kalmus ... color director: Technicolor

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Hans Dreier
John B. Goodman

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Edith Head

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Russell Mathews ... assistant director

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A.E. Freudeman ... interior decorator

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Harry D. Mills ... sound recordist (as Harry Mills)
Walter Oberst ... sound recordist
Loren L. Ryder ... sound effects (uncredited)

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Gordon Jennings ... special photographic effects
Jan Domela ... matte artist (uncredited)
Farciot Edouart ... process photography (uncredited)
Paul K. Lerpae ... optical cinematography (uncredited)

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

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Charles Bradshaw ... composer: additional music (uncredited)
John Leipold ... composer: additional music (uncredited)
Leo Shuken ... composer: additional music (uncredited)
Victor Young ... composer: additional music (uncredited)

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E.F. Winckler ... technical advisor (uncredited)

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Having been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasing dark horses for the pursuit of black pearls, meets Johnny Potter, a former Navy man who has lived in a drunken stupor since being kicked out of the service. The skipper tries to convince Johnny to sign on as his navigator, but Johnny refuses to return to the sea. However, after a bar room brawl with the savage Kehi, Johnny is knocked unconscious and is shanghaied by Skipper aboard his rusty old submarine. The men are chased from the harbor by Kehi, who is furious because Mekaike, one of the skipper's men, has stolen his black pearl earrings. After running out of oil because Mekaike has forgotten to refuel the tank, they reach the island inhabited by Dea, where Johnny collapses on the beach in a drunken stupor. The skipper leaves his friend on the beach, where Dea and Koko find him and take him to their tree house to recover. When the skipper returns to the beach, he thinks that Johnny has been washed out to sea. As the skipper and his men build a boat to leave the island, Dea begs Johnny to stay, but fearing that he is doomed to die an early death from alcohol, he refuses. Finding his way back to the beach, Johnny arrives just as Mekaike leads a mutiny against the skipper. After tying Johnny and the skipper to a tree, the men steal the submarine, only to drown when they dive with the hatch open. Stranded, Johnny and the skipper continue building their boat until Kehi tracks them down and sets fire to the island. As the flames consume the foliage, a typhoon roars in from the sea and floods the island, leaving a lifeboat behind in its wake. Dea, Johnny, the skipper and Koko then board the little craft and sail off to civilization.

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Taglines ITS FURY SCREAMS ACROSS THE SCREEN...! Roaring out of the South Seas...smashing everything before it with the fury of its passion! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Tifón (Spain)
  • Tyfon (Greece)
  • Tifone sulla Malesia (Italy)
  • Taifuuni (Finland)
  • Tufão (Portugal)
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Trivia One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial telecasts took place in Chicago Wednesday 7 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), followed by Philadelphia 12 January 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10), by Omaha 2 February 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), by Phoenix 11 April 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), by Grand Rapids 4 August 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8), by Detroit 25 September 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), by Milwaukee 12 October 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), by Johnstown 4 November 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6), by Toledo 14 March 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11), by Asheville 26 March 1960 on WLOS (Channel 13), by San Francisco 12 June 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5) and by Pittsburgh 14 June 1960 on KDKA (Channel 2). At this time, color broadcasting was in its infancy, limited to only a small number of high rated programs, primarily on NBC and NBC affiliated stations, so most vintage film showings were still in B&W. Viewers were not offered the opportunity to see these films in their original Technicolor until several years later. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Cast in Steele (1984). See more »
Soundtracks PALMS OF PARADISE See more »
Quotes Skipper Joe: Alright, I'll tell you why I did it. I saw a little horse one time, two year old. Full of spirit. Because he lost a race, his trainer beat him over the head. All the spirit was gone. Well, I bought him, turned him out. Then he found out he wouldn't get a beating from me and he came back and he won. I thought you were a little like that horse. I guess wrong. Horse was a thoroughbred.
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