Bird of Paradise Page #3

Synopsis: A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. They try to escape but realize that "east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet."
Director(s): King Vidor
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
 
IMDB:
6.1
PASSED
Year:
1932
80 min
112 Views


Oh, taboo, bunk!

I've got to have a canoe!

A canoe.

Here, you get me a canoe I

give you this, it's nice and soft.

Here, I give you this...light.

Do you smoke?

Oh, it doesn't hurt you. Here!

Here! You can have it!

I give it to you!

You take it!

Now get me canoe!

Canoe, see? Canoe!

I'll take it away from you unless

you get me a canoe right away!

Do I get a canoe?

All right. Here!

Paint job, huh?

Great idea!

Here, put some on my back!

Look!

What?

Oh, I see what you mean:

OUR HOME.

OUR HOME?

Our home

Our home.

That's swell!

What?

Oh! Water!

WAH-TU?

Wa-ter.

- WA-TER!!!

- You're a cinch!

Food, huh?

FUDAH?

No, not FUDHUNH...FOOD!

FOOD!

Practically perfect!

Oh! I see! Coconuts.

Oh, I'm afraid I get you, Sweetheart.

Do you wanna help me up?

Well, here it goes!

Oh, boy!

Here comes a big one!

Heads up!

Did it get wet?

Here comes another one!

Watch out!

Like it?

Right over home base! It's a

great pitch! And he's out!

What?

Lovely!

Oh! Knife!

Knife, huh?

Knife!

-Knife. -Knife. -Knife. -Knife.

I'm glad you know how

to do all of these things.

I'd be lost out here!

Spilled a little.

You spill it!

You're filling me.

You take a little now!

See how you like it.

Um! That's marvelous!

Kiss me!

Suppose I make you kiss me?

I'll teach you to run away from me!

Rain!

Say! I fell like a potato bug!

We can't run under these

leaves every time it rains.

I've go to build a house.

House?

Yeah! A place to live in.

A shelter. You know, a place to sleep.

Oh, yeah! Well, that, too!

Let it rain, let it pour!

Well, do you like it?

Oh! Johnny!

Finish house, huh?

It's a palace, it's a castle.

Look, Whiskers, now you

have place for sleep!

Hey, Nick! I didn't build that house

for the goat, I built for you and me.

You do everything.

Yeah, I'm a great guy all right.

You happy?

And when the gang comes back,

I'm gonna take you home with me.

No, Johnny.

No!

Oh, why not?

Some day, Pele angry.

Tom-toms call,

I go.

You mean to the volcano?

I won't let you go.

You belong to me now, see?

If I not here here when

Pele calls, then Pele angry.

You too!

Volcano curse on you.

- You die, too.

- Aw! Now, thats a lot of hooey!

I'm not afraid of Pele and what

the volcano curse can do to me.

And you're not gonna be afraid either.

I'm gonna take you

back to civilization.

We don't have any crazy,

superstitious ideas about

volcanoes being mad at people

and putting a curse on 'em.

Civilization?

Where is that?

Well, it's...that's not a place.

That's where things are happening,

people are accomplishing something.

Did I tell you about the radio?

Well, all you do is sit there

and turn a little dial,

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