Bird of Paradise : [En]

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Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to transform the Richard Walton Tully original into RKO's "prestige" offering of 1932. Joel McCrea stars as a handsome South Seas soldier of fortune who falls in love with Dolores Del Rio, the daughter of a Polynesian native chieftain. Alas, their idyllic romance is destined to come to a sudden and violent end: tribal custom decrees that Del Rio is to be sacrificed to the local volcano. After initial resistance, the heroine nobly resigns herself to her fate, realizing that there is no place for her in her white lover's civilization. A more conservative (and far less costly) version of Bird of Paradise was filmed in 1952, with Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.

About this movie

Genres: Science Fiction
Language:English
Running time:1:20:33
Released:1932

Cast & Crew

Cast

Bruce Kellogg
Otto Waldis
Jim Bannon
Tom Handley
Dick Cogan
George Baxter
Marilyn Nash
Dolores Del Rio
Luana
Joel McCrea

Johnny Baker
John Halliday
Mac
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Thornton
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
Chester
James Newill
Renfrew
Carolyn Hughes
Virginia Bronson
William Royle
George Hollis
Donald Reed

McDonald
Evelyn Brent
Cherry Malotte
Blanche Sweet
Queenie
Jean Arthur
Mildred Wayland
Joel McCrea
Boyd Emerson

Directors

Terry O. Morse
King Vidor
Albert Herman
George Archainbaud
Robert Florey

Producers

Irving Block
Jack Rabin
Robert L. Lippert
David O. Selznick
Gordon Griffith
Albert Herman
William Le Baron
William Sistrom
Joseph N. Ermolieff

Writers

Millard Kaufman

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[text]Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to transform the Richard Walton Tully original into RKO's "prestige" offering of 1932. Joel McCrea stars as a handsome South Seas soldier of fortune who falls in love with Dolores Del Rio, the daughter of a Polynesian native chieftain. Alas, their idyllic romance is destined to come to a sudden and violent end: tribal custom decrees that Del Rio is to be sacrificed to the local volcano. After initial resistance, the heroine nobly resigns herself to her fate, realizing that there is no place for her in her white lover's civilization. A more conservative (and far less costly) version of Bird of Paradise was filmed in 1952, with Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.

About this movie

Genres: Science Fiction
Language:English
Running time:1:20:33
Released:1932