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...tells the Polynesian legend of a love affair between an island boy and a girl who has been selected by her tribe for vestal consecration. The boy, Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When Matahi gets back, Hitu has already prevailed on Reri to return. He sees their boat, swims after it, sinks as the boat grows...
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...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...
...fair entertainment. Richard Arlen as "Pink" Barker turns his handsome profile often and to good advantage towards the camera. Robert Gleckler is adequate as Rogue Schultz. Fay Wray as Daisy is a bit too literate for a waif reared on an island where cultural advantages were few. Best shot: Diver Arlen meeting the cannibals...
Pandemonium on the Artiglio. The gold-bearing Egypt carried easily distinguishable hydraulic cranes of a type no longer used. Diver Alberto came up, Director Alberto went down. So did several other divers. In short order the wreck was identified as the Egypt. Deep in a jungle of seaweed, blurred with brown moss it was unmistakably the Egypt. Bottles were opened on the Artiglio that night, guitars and banjos were strummed...