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. . . that released WHAT DO YOU THINK? TUPAPAOO and then GASHED WITH THE WHIP the following year, one only need to look at the credits for this GWTW warm-up act. At least three-quarters of the cast for WHAT DO YOU THINK? TUPAPAOO are Polynesian-Americans. However, when you take a gander at the credits, who do you see listed? White guy. White guy. White guy. White guy. And another White guy. What is the meaning of this outrage? Obviously, the mendacious House of the Groaning Fat Cat (aka, The Billionaire Boys' Club), were floating a trial balloon with WHAT DO YOU THINK? TUPAPAOO to see what they could bet away with in their devious effort to remake our entire nation in the image of The "Jim Crow" South. After years of subtly promoting voter disenfranchising, share-cropping slave wages, separate drinking fountains and lavatories, segregated schools, vigilante hangings, and worse, these Fat Cat One Per Centers were wondering whether to blatantly rewrite the USA's History Books, and flood America's movie theaters with Fake News about the traitors of the treasonous "Red States" actually "winning" the War to Eradicate Lazy Mint-Julep-Sipping Human Traffickers. By not even giving a credit to the Tribal Chief featured in WHAT DO YOU THINK? TUPAPAOO, the deplorable GWTW crowd learned that they could literally get away with ANYTHING in this Nation of Sheep--the more brazen their devilish perfidy, the better!

It was with great pride that I found the title through IMDb's Character search. Turner Classic Movies is running the MGM Parade series. In episode #20 an excerpt of this short is shown, without listing the name of the film. General plot: Olsen plays Kurt Larsen, a larcenous lecher who has bilked the islanders of the pearls they have harvested from the sea. He brings nearly worthless trinkets, supposedly attractive to the people, and lists their debts in a book. As they bring him the pearls that are of much greater value, he marks off their debts. One day a comet - they call a fire in the sky - passes by and the chief forewarns of a great storm. Unbelieving Kurt makes no preparations and suffers a loss of all the pearls, as his store is burnt to the ground in a fire caused by a suspiciously shifting wind. Poetic justice seems to be a critical part of island philosophy.