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Aloma of the South Seas is a 1941 American romantic adventure drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall. The film was shot in Technicolor and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Aloma of the South Seas is based on the 1925 Broadway play of the same name by LeRoy Clemens and John B. Hymer. It is a remake of the 1926 silent film of the same name. Lamour and Hall were the reigning darlings of south sea island adventures of this era having starred in John Ford's The Hurricane. Aloma of the South Seas fits into the romance adventure canon of which Lamour and Hall excelled at.




Plot


Aloma and Prince Tanoa are promised by the islanders to wed from their childhood, though the two despise each other and fight. Tanoa is sent to the United States for her education and does not return for 15 years after the death of his father. Once crowned, Tanoa's treacherous cousin Revo who has plotted to rule in place of Tanoa since childhood, sees his chance by arming himself and his band with rifles and a light machine gun.




Cast


Dorothy Lamour as Aloma
Jon Hall as Tanoa
Lynne Overman as Corky
Phillip Reed as Revo
Katherine DeMille as Kari
Fritz Leiber as High Priest
Dona Drake as Nea
Esther Dale as Tarusa
Pedro de Cordoba as Raaiti
John Barclay as Ikali
Norma Gene Nelson as Aloma as a child
Evelyn Del Rio as Nea, as a child
Scotty Beckett as Tanoa as a child
William Roy as Revo as a child
Noble Johnson as Moukali




Awards


The film was nominated for two Academy Awards:

Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects (Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Louis Mesenkop)




References






External links


Aloma of the South Seas at IMDb
Aloma of the South Seas at AllMovie

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• Daftar film Paramount Pictures (1940–1949)
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