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Bird of paradise / David O. Selznick, executive producer ; screen play by Wells Root, Wanda Tuchock, Leonard Praskins ; director, King Vidor.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Publisher: [Los Angeles, CA] : Radio Pictures, [1932]Distributor: [Los Angeles, CA] : [Cinetel Films]Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (82 min.)) : sound, black and whiteContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Title appears in credits as: Radio Pictures presents King Vidor's production of Bird of paradise
  • King Vidor's production of Bird of paradise
  • Spanish title: Ave del paraíso
Uniform titles:
  • Bird of paradise (Motion picture : 1932). Spanish.
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Tully, Richard Walton, 1877-1945. Bird of paradise
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Photographed by Clyde de Vinna, Edward Cronjager, Lucien Andriot; music by Max Steiner; editor, Archie F. Marshek.
Cast: Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Bert Roach.Summary: A handsome South Seas soldier of fortune falls in love with 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 she 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.
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Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture in 1932.

Movie distributed by Cinetel for Digitalia Film Library.

Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Bert Roach.

Photographed by Clyde de Vinna, Edward Cronjager, Lucien Andriot; music by Max Steiner; editor, Archie F. Marshek.

Based on: Bird of paradise / Richard Walton Tully.

A handsome South Seas soldier of fortune falls in love with 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 she 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.

In Spanish.

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed July 31, 2015)

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