Ah, yes, Amazon Prime does need it's filler, and what better than old Poverty Row exploitation films from the 1940's.
The movie claims to be based on a Herman Melville story, but one you probably never heard of so you can't check it.
The plots, such as it is, is that a sea captain stole two giant black pearls that served as the eyes of a shark god idol, and is now returning to Tahiti to get a "tabu" curse lifted from him. He hid the pearls, but members of his crew beat him to death and manipulate his daughter into showing them where they are.
Since this is a Poverty Row exploitation film, we have large chunks filled with nature photography, including fish in an aquarium being seen side on instead of overhead, and animals like tigers and orangutans which are not native to Tahiti.
But on it's good side, it's actually kind of enlightened for 1949. The natives aren't shown as being "Savage" and kind of in the right, while the white people are shown as the greedy villains who get their comeuppance. It ends with the pearls being returned to the shark god idol.
So, um yeah, not as bad as people are making it out to be.
The movie claims to be based on a Herman Melville story, but one you probably never heard of so you can't check it.
The plots, such as it is, is that a sea captain stole two giant black pearls that served as the eyes of a shark god idol, and is now returning to Tahiti to get a "tabu" curse lifted from him. He hid the pearls, but members of his crew beat him to death and manipulate his daughter into showing them where they are.
Since this is a Poverty Row exploitation film, we have large chunks filled with nature photography, including fish in an aquarium being seen side on instead of overhead, and animals like tigers and orangutans which are not native to Tahiti.
But on it's good side, it's actually kind of enlightened for 1949. The natives aren't shown as being "Savage" and kind of in the right, while the white people are shown as the greedy villains who get their comeuppance. It ends with the pearls being returned to the shark god idol.
So, um yeah, not as bad as people are making it out to be.