gilbert-chevy I am wondering if this movie will be done in DVD. My family is in this movie, my Dad, Aunties, Uncles and cousins...many of whom my children do not know. I am always sharing about this movie with them, and would love the opportunity to own it, watch it, and share it with my family. The reason I am writing to you, is that my Mom told me today, that one of our cousins has the movie, in VHS form, and they were watching it last night. My Dad, he is the boy at the end of the movie running down the aisle. My Aunty Violet, she is my great grand Aunty, and she played the Chiefess and I remember spending time with her, before she passed away. My grandfather is the last of the 5th generation in our family, and it would be wonderful to own and share this move with our family. I know that if this movie came out, many, many of the family members would be purchasing this memoir. Please let me know...thank you very much.

polkemax I, too, saw this many years ago. I actually have a few years on you, Yoshiyuki, as I'm 57. I saw it around 1960, maybe a little before. I've been looking for it for YEARS, too, but somewhere along the line I got confused and thought the name was "Isle of Paradise", so thanks to you, I've gotten straight on that! I hope we both have luck in finding it soon. I don't believe I've ever seen the earlier version, from 1932. Another movie I'm looking for is The Crowd Roars, starring Robert Taylor. A bit older movie from the late 1930s. These 2 movies are my favorites from long ago and it would mean SO MUCH to find them. I have such fond memories of both these films.

mamamojo55 Yes, I've seen the movie too and loved it. I loved the story line of a simple, happy people who could have done a lot better if the Haole would have just stayed out! Now look at what the White man has done to those beautiful islands of paradise. Everywhere you look now, you see the white man's influence. Very little is left of the true Polynesians depicted in this movie. I just think its appalling that the white man has to destroy every culture, every race, every way of life just to benefit his own greedy lust! Why can't we just leave things alone? Why do we always feel we have to change things? To the people, ancestors, and spirits of a long ago people, I apologize for my race for what we have done to your world. I wish you peace and happiness and love.

jeffhill1 When I first saw "Bird of Paradise", I was an adolescent and I saw it on television as a not-so-recent movie. I already had a crush on Debra Paget from having seen her as Morning Star in "Broken Arrow." I was also a bit enamoured with her sister, Lisa Gaye as Collette DuBois on "the Bob Commings Show." But I figured that sooner or later I would get over my adolescent infatuation with the exotic characters these sister actresses were playing and eventually I'd settle down, marry a white bread woman, and get an office job like my father.Now it is 40 years later and I have spent the vast majority of that time serving, studying, and teaching in Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan. I never got over my infatuation with exotic, non-white bread women. I now have two masters degrees. When getting my masters in Far East Asian Studies, each time I described one more aspect of the "Bird of Paradise" wedding to a colleague whose specialty was the study of Bali culture, he gasped, "That's just like it is in Bali!""Jeff Chandler explains to Louis Jordon, 'You must come at night and steal her.' 'But I thought her parents approved of the marriage.' 'They do. But if they freely let her go, it would mean they don't love her and it would be an insult to her.' 'OK, I come and steal her. And we run away together.' 'No. She will scream and fight you.' 'But she loves me and wants to marry me.' 'Yes. But if she goes with you freely, it would mean she doesn't love her parents and it would be an insult.' 'OK. I steal her. She screams and fights me. And I take her away.' 'Yes. But you have to carry her and run fast because I as her brother will grab my spear and alert all the other men in the village and we will try to find you, catch you, and kill you. If we didn't, it would mean we don't care about her and it would be an insult. But don't worry. You will escape and take her to your secret place.' 'What secret? You and the young men of the village helped me build it.' 'Well, on that night, we won't be able t find it. We will get close but we won't find it. And we will be very angry about that and make angry noises all night. That will be your wedding night music.'Even more than she is in "Broken Arrow", Debra Paget is devoted to her white husband. Someone who when asked if she is ready to jump into the erupting volcano will say, "I have loved and been loved. I am ready." I never did find a woman as fully exotic and as completely devoted to me as the image radiated by Debra Paget in "Broken Arrow," "Bird of Paradise," "Demetrius and the Gladiators," and "The Ten Commandments." But I have been living with the same Asian woman for 31 years. And I am happy.