Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
...small outrigger canoe he made the 600-mile voyage from Tahiti to Manukura, his native island, where willing hands hid him. heads were put together to plan his escape, with his wife and child, to a safe refuge. Just as everything was ready, the unattractively upright French Administrator got wind of the plot. Thinking Terangi had already left the island, he put off to sea after him. Not many hours later, the hurricane...
...Crocker has never been tied to his desk by his duties, though he has not played polo since the 1933 bank moratorium. Now 42, stocky, stoutish, convivial, he romps through his work, has plenty of time for such fun as golf, tennis, visits to Pebble Beach, the snowy Sierras, Tahiti. His home is a 103-acre chunk of his father's original estate equipped with an Italian villa, swimming pool, squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped...
...personable, mercurial Irishman, Errol Flynn plays a swashbuckling role without swashbuckling. Last June he married Lily Damita, whom he calls "Sweets." When he finished school in Belfast, where his father is a biology professor, Errol Flynn got bit parts on the London stage, later went to Tahiti, bought a boat, fished for pearls, prospected for gold in New Guinea. Back in London he got stage parts in Othello, Another Language, The Constant Nymph. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), brawny (180 lb.), he boxed on England's 1928 Olympic team...
...polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours which it lasts seem as interminable as Bligh's voyage in the open boat must have seemed to its occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still contains enough material for at least three films. These faults are indigenous to the historic material used. The picture has few others. It is superbly photographed by Arthur Edeson. Franchot Tone as Byam, Clark Gable as Christian and Dudley Digges as the ship's doctor perform...