Bird of Paradise (King Vidor, 1932) DVDRip VO

[auess]

Bird of Paradise (1932)

Directed by
King Vidor

Runtime: 80 min / USA:82 min (FMC Library Print)
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (RCA Photophone System)
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022689/
Poster: http://www.imagexoom.com/uploads/264875.1020.a.jpg

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. — Hal Erickson

Trivia: King Vidor originally took his cast and crew to Hawaii to shoot exteriors. After numerous technical problems, the weather took a turn for the worst, so hopes of shooting the picture in authentic locations was never realized.

User Comments: Love, Romance & A Volcano.

A young man, sailing the South Seas with friends, is saved from a shark by a lovely chief's daughter. They fall madly in love, only to have him learn that his beautiful BIRD OF PARADISE is destined to be sacrificed to Pele, the volcano god.

Essentially a piece of fluff, this film is enhanced by the performances of Dolores Del Rio & Joel McCrea. They handle the romantics quite nicely (her skinny dip providing proof this is a pre-Production Code movie). The rest of the cast, which includes Lon Chaney Jr. & 'Skeets' Gallagher, exist purely to provide support to the stars.

Location filming in Hawaii and a beautiful, evocative score by Max Steiner emphasize the languid mood of the plot.

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(Thanks Malachi for bringing us another nice film. Really wonderful! )

[cernickalo]

Also available the spanish dub here.

[Tragamuvis]

Thank you so much for the VO, auess, you're always bringing premium stuff Pickin' it up at once.
best regards.

saludos Cerni, ahora hay para elegir, los doblófilos (apreciable mayoría) por supuesto van a descargar la tuya.

[cernickalo]

saludos Cerni, ahora hay para elegir, los doblófilos (apreciable mayoría) por supuesto van a descargar la tuya.

Es de suponer, amigo mío. La puse en circulación hace tiempo pero aún está bien distribuida. Lo que realmente lamento es que el ripeo que nos trae auess no tenga una calidad de video sustancialmente mayor, para montar un bonito dual.

Saludos.

[nordlingen]

Pincho la versión doblada. Sí, es cierto, soy un doblófilo, he luchado contra ello pero es más fuerte que yo; en fin, que el cielo me juzgue. Gracias por la peli, cernickalo. En cuanto a vos, Tragamuvis, voy a pasarme toda la temporada poniendo verde a Manu no más que por joder. Un saludo a ambos.

[Forrest Gump]

La he pinchado, pero no aparecen fuentes completas. ¿Alguien la puede reponer? Muchas gracias auess y Malachi.