White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Directors

Robert J. Flaherty, W.S. Van Dyke

Cast

Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush

The story

thumb|White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Dr. Matthew Lloyd, an alcoholic doctor, is disgusted by white traders' exploitation of native pearl divers on a Polynesian island. The traders give the divers well below the value of the pearls while the divers suffer numerous injuries, some fatal, from the sea bed and from diving without breathing equipment.

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