"SOUTH OF PAGO PAGO."
FEATURE AT THE PLAZA. i A South Seas melodrama that contains all tile romantic elements of the storied isles is '-South of Pago Pago," the feature film to commence a season at the Plaza Theatre on Friday. This is Jon Hall's first film since '•Hurricane" and it offers him again in coat of tan as a young chief of natives to whose South Sea island come pearl hunter* bringing gin, guile and avarice. Victor McLaglen takes the part of the leader of these intruders, and Frances Farmer plays the white girl of the bar rooms who marries the chief as the means to an end. Gene Lockhart, Douglas Dunibrille and Olympe Bradna play other parte. The film carries a number of native dances, pea:l diving sequences and fisticuffs in plenty. Directed by Alfred Green the picture is crowded with entertainment attraction and is certain to prove popular with all patrons of romantic films with an adventurous angle. The story and screen play is by George Bruce and Kenneth Garnet.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 3
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173"SOUTH OF PAGO PAGO." Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 3
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