Aloma Of The South Seas

This remake of a 1926 silent film starring Gilda Gray and directed by Maurice Tourneur is a top-drawer South Seas romance. A Tahitian chief selects a bride for his young son who is then sent off for a Harvard education. Upon his return aboard Overman's ship--the captain acting as mentor to Hall and protector to Lamour--the youth, now grown into Hall, is determined not to marry someone promised to him 15 years earlier. Hall meets Lamour, not knowing she is his intended, and both fall deeply in love. The match is almost interrupted by a jealous native girl, DeMille, and even more vengeance-seeking sub-chieftain Reed, the latter trying to kill Hall several times so he...