PARADISE ISLE (1937) Movita, Warren Hull & William B. Davidson | Adventure, Drama | B&W

Paradise Isle is a 1937 American film directed by Arthur Greville Collins with sequences shot in American Samoa. The film was produced by Dorothy Davenport under the name "Dorothy Reid" and was released by Monogram Pictures. The film stars Mexican actress Movita Castaneda continuing her persona of a South Seas Island girl that began with Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

SYNOPSIS
A native girl takes care of a blind artist when he is shipwrecked on a south sea island.

Kennedy is a shipwrecked blind artist who is washed ashore on an island en route to meeting an eminent eye surgeon in Suva who is the only chance to restore his sight. He is nursed back to health by Ida, an island girl. When Kennedy is distraught that he cannot pay for the operation due to his money being lost when his ship went down, Ida obtains a valuable black pearl that sets scheming in motion on the island paradise.

CAST & CREW
Movita Castaneda as Ida
Warren Hull as Kennedy
William B. Davidson as Hoener
John St. Polis as Coxon
George Piltz as Tono (as George Pilita)
Pierre Watkin as Steinmeyer
Kenneth Harlan as Johnson
Russell Simpson as Baxter

Directed by Arthur Greville Collins
Written by Allan Vaughan Elston (story "The Belled Palm"), Marion Orth (adaptation and screenplay)
Produced by Dorothy Davenport
Cinematography Gilbert Warrenton
Edited by Russell F. Schoengarth
Music by Sam Koki, Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date July 21, 1937
Running time 73 minutes
Country United States
Language English