Directed by:
Delmer DavesScreenplay:
Delmer DavesCinematography:
Winton C. HochComposer:
Daniele AmfitheatrofCast:
Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane, Maurice Schwartz, Jack Elam, Otto Waldis, Alfred ZeislerPlots(1)
They cast movies strangely years ago. Chandler is a South Seas native and his sister, Paget, is a sort of a Fijian princess. Maurice Schwartz is a medicine man, the ever-urbane Sloane is a beachcomber, in this handsomely mounted remake of the 1932 Joel McCrea/Dolores Del Rio version of the same Richard Tully play. Daves wears many hats. The story is very basic; Jourdan accompanies Chandler to his island home and falls in love with Paget. They woo (against all native traditions) and their courting courts disaster and predictions of terrible things from the witch doctors. A local volcano erupts and Paget's answer is to assume responsibility for the whole thing and to throw herself into the volcano to appease it. Talk about guilt! Paget (born Debralee Griffin) does a good job. Maurice Schwartz was one of the greatest actors of the Yiddish stage and introduced the title character of Tevya in an early Yiddish-language film. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Debra Paget
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
White Feather (1955)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Louis Jourdan
France
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Julie (1956)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Jeff Chandler
USA
Best movies:
The Jayhawkers (1959)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Two Flags West (1950)
Everett Sloane
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Lust for Life (1956)
Maurice Schwartz
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Salome (1953)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Jack Elam
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Otto Waldis
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Alfred Zeisler
USA
Best movies:
5 Fingers (1952)
The Desert Rats (1953)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)