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'Last of the Pagans' is a 1935 MGM film based on the Herman Melville novel 'Typee' (1846).LAST OF THE PAGANS (M.-G.-M.)

Picture Show; London Vol. 35, Iss. 889, (May 16, 1936): 21.


The film was shot on location in Tahiti.Dick Thorpe: All-American

Levy, Shawn. Film Comment; New York Vol. 29, Iss. 1, (Jan 1993): 76.
A Director of a Tropical Film Has A Visitor's Usual Odd Experiences: Dick Thorpe Discovers All Strange Phenomena of Distant Islands.

By Richard Thorpe. (Director of "Last of the Pagans"). The Washington Post 8 Dec 1935: M1.


Plot summary



Taro is a native of the island of 'Tafoa' who kidnaps a wife named Lilleo from the neighboring island while bride hunting. At first she greatly dislikes him but comes to love him. During a feast, an American schooner arrives at the island and offers liquor and trinkets such as pocket watches to the natives if they sign a form they can not read which forces them to work in terrible conditions in the phosphate mine on the island of 'Patua' for the 'Olympic Mining Company.' Taro is sent to the mines and Lilleo is taken back to 'Tafoa' to marry the chieftain. During a mine collapse, Taro risks his life to save his supervisor which greatly impresses his captors. They agree to bring him Lilleo though they change their mind when they learn she is the chieftain's bride. Disheartened, Lilleo sneaks aboard the schooner to 'Patua' without their permission. They find out and lock her in a cabin but she escapes to meet Taro. They bring her back to the schooner and Taro follows suit but is imprisoned by the French authorities in a dilapidated prison. During a hurricane the roof of the prison flies off and Taro escapes to the now, save for Lilleo, abandoned schooner. He saves her and after the storm clears they sail for an uninhabited island to start a new life together.

Cast



* Ray Mala as Taro

* Lotus Long as Lilleo

* Rudolph Anders as Superintendent's Assistant

* Chester Gan as Chinese Cook (uncredited)

* Rangapo A. Taipoo as Taro's Mother (uncredited)

* Teio A. Tematua as The Chief (uncredited)

* Charles Trowbridge as Mine Superintendent

References




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