White Heat (1934)

  • NR
  • 12/30/1934 (US)
  • Drama, Romance
  • 1h 2m

Overview

In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.

Lois Weber

Writer, Director

James Bodrero

Story, Writer

Cast

Virginia Cherrill's headshot

Virginia Cherrill

Lucille Cheney
Mona Maris's headshot

Mona Maris

Leilani
Hardie Albright's headshot

Hardie Albright

Chandler Morris
David Newell's headshot

David Newell

William Hawkes
Arthur Clayton's headshot

Arthur Clayton

Armia
Robert R. Stephenson's headshot

Robert R. Stephenson

Mac (as Bob Stevenson)
Whitney De Rahm's headshot

Whitney De Rahm

Hale
Naomi Childers's headshot

Naomi Childers

Mrs. Cheney

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