Monday, November 4, 2019

Paradise Island (1930)

A rather dated and uninspiring early talkie. Ellen (Marceline Day) arrives in Tonga to get married but finds her husband (Roy Armstrong) to be is a hopeless drunk. As Ellen is the only white woman on the island she soon finds herself the centre of attention from a number of men...

They include Dutch Mike (Tom Santschi), whom Ellen soon finds cannot be trusted, and adventure seeker Jim (Kenneth Harlan). Ellen finds herself to be the prize in a poker game between Dutch Mike and Jim but Dutch Mike has marked cards...

It is light froth which ends in a largely clumsy fight (more like a shapeless brawl) and has a few songs along the way. The film is OK but rather dumb.