The read
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 2m.
Synopsis
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
4 audience votes
Key crew
- James BodreroWriter
- Lois WeberWriter
- Lois WeberDirector
Cast
- Virginia CherrillLucille Cheney
- Mona MarisLeilani
- Hardie AlbrightChandler Morris
- David NewellWilliam Hawkes
- Arthur ClaytonArmia
- Robert R. StephensonMac (as Bob Stevenson)
- Whitney De RahmHale
- Naomi ChildersMrs. Cheney
- Nani PalsaAdam
- Kolimau KamaiLono
- Kamaunani AchiMrs. Hale
- Peter Lee HyunSoong