Bird of Paradise (1951)

Directors

Delmer Daves

Cast

Alfred Zeisler, Debra Paget, Everett Sloane, Jack Elam, Jeff Chandler, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Schwartz, Otto Waldis

The story

Frenchman, Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate Tenga home to Polynesia. While there, he marries Tenga's sister Kalua, and life is good until Andre falls under the disapproving glare of the witch doctor known as the Kahuna, who warns that Andre will poison paradise with his evil White ways. When the island's mountain erupts in endless lava flow, the Kahuna decrees that the volcano gods can be appeased only by human sacrifice, and the victim is intended to be Kalua.

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