FILM - Bird of Paradise
Episode Details
First aired: August 11, 2021.(1932, USA, in English | Hawaiian, b&w)
Director: King Vidor
Writers: Richard Walton Tully (play), Wells Root (screenplay)
Stars: Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers that the local custom is to sacrifice a young woman to the volcanic gods. They try to escape but realize that "east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.
