A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
Phillip Reed
- Revo
- (as Philip Reed)
Katherine DeMille
- Kari
- (as Katherine deMille)
Norma Gene Nelson
- Aloma as a Child
- (as Norma Jean Nelson)
William Roy
- Revo as a Child
- (as Billy Roy)
Fred Aldrich
- Native
- (uncredited)
Zita Baca
- Hand Maiden
- (uncredited)
John Bagni
- Native
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe plot of the original 1926 version involves a man who returns home after the war to find his sweetheart has married someone else. He travels to the South Seas where he meets Aloma and falls in love with her. Then she has to return the man she loves to his sweetheart when she comes for him.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Road to Bali (1952)
- SoundtracksTHE WHITE BLOSSOMS OF TAH-NI
Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Music by Friedrich Hollaender (as Frederick Hollander)
Performed by Dorothy Lamour
Featured review
Volcanic fury is the only reason to watch...
Paramount designated DOROTHY LAMOUR their sarong girl and couldn't resist pairing her with JON HALL in another one of those South Seas epics that inevitably ends with the Gods getting angry enough to cause the local volcano to erupt. Well, it does erupt here and there's an earthquake too, but nothing atones for the banal script.
Paramount would repeat the story somewhat with RAINBOW ISLAND ('44), three years later, again a South Seas tale in Technicolor with a volcano erupting for the climactic scene but it was more a spoof of Lamour's usual films than ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS, which takes itself seriously.
The plot has JON HALL sent off to England for an education (as a tot he's played by Scotty Beckett, another unlikely child performer to turn into Jon Hall). When he returns to the island, he picks up his romance with native gal Lamour until all hell breaks loose to stir things up for the finale. But it's too late to rescue the film from boredom.
Summing up: Prettily photographed in Oscar-nominated Technicolor and some Special Effects, also Oscar-nominated, but hardly worth all the expense.
Paramount would repeat the story somewhat with RAINBOW ISLAND ('44), three years later, again a South Seas tale in Technicolor with a volcano erupting for the climactic scene but it was more a spoof of Lamour's usual films than ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS, which takes itself seriously.
The plot has JON HALL sent off to England for an education (as a tot he's played by Scotty Beckett, another unlikely child performer to turn into Jon Hall). When he returns to the island, he picks up his romance with native gal Lamour until all hell breaks loose to stir things up for the finale. But it's too late to rescue the film from boredom.
Summing up: Prettily photographed in Oscar-nominated Technicolor and some Special Effects, also Oscar-nominated, but hardly worth all the expense.
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- Also known as
- Aloma, die Tochter der Südsee
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Aloma of the South Seas (1941) officially released in India in English?
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