Columbia distributed this quickie made on the cheap in California with settings that convincingly make it look as though it was filmed in Samoa. The B&W photography is crisp and JON HALL is once again a man on the lam after a crime whose plane crashes in the South Seas.
Naturally, he falls in love with a native girl who recites the sort of dialog Dorothy Lamour used to have in all those jungle films she did early in her career. SUSAN CABOT is the girl, and while she's very pretty she's also a very limited actress--which doesn't matter much in this case since she just has to wear a sarong and gaze longingly at Hall for most of the film and smile prettily at the end when he returns to civilization without her to seek redemption for his theft of stolen money.
Hall had put on a little more weight by this time and looks beefy but still has the famously rugged physique that served him so well in all those films he did in the '40s with Maria Montez and Sabu.
It's really a simple morality tale, told amid pleasantly lush surroundings of an island paradise. RAYMOND GREENLEAF is the island's pastor who convinces Hall to make amends and then return to the island after he's served his time. If the plot sounds familiar, it's because Jon Hall had basically the same role years earlier in his breakthrough film, THE HURRICANE where he spent most of the film escaping from various jails in order to be reunited with Dorothy Lamour.
This is no "hurricane", but it does have a volcano that erupts in the final reel as well as a minor earthquake.
Summing up: Passes the time in a brief spell, but everything about it is "minor", including the story.
Naturally, he falls in love with a native girl who recites the sort of dialog Dorothy Lamour used to have in all those jungle films she did early in her career. SUSAN CABOT is the girl, and while she's very pretty she's also a very limited actress--which doesn't matter much in this case since she just has to wear a sarong and gaze longingly at Hall for most of the film and smile prettily at the end when he returns to civilization without her to seek redemption for his theft of stolen money.
Hall had put on a little more weight by this time and looks beefy but still has the famously rugged physique that served him so well in all those films he did in the '40s with Maria Montez and Sabu.
It's really a simple morality tale, told amid pleasantly lush surroundings of an island paradise. RAYMOND GREENLEAF is the island's pastor who convinces Hall to make amends and then return to the island after he's served his time. If the plot sounds familiar, it's because Jon Hall had basically the same role years earlier in his breakthrough film, THE HURRICANE where he spent most of the film escaping from various jails in order to be reunited with Dorothy Lamour.
This is no "hurricane", but it does have a volcano that erupts in the final reel as well as a minor earthquake.
Summing up: Passes the time in a brief spell, but everything about it is "minor", including the story.