White Heat

White Heat

62 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 30, 1934

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.

White Heat

62 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 30, 1934

White Heat
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.
Producers Seven Seas Corp.
Original title White Heat
Directors Lois Weber
Writers Lois Weber, James Bodrero

Cast

Virginia Cherrill

as Lucille Cheney

Mona Maris

as Leilani

Hardie Albright

as Chandler Morris

David Newell

as William Hawkes

Arthur Clayton

as Armia

Robert R. Stephenson

as Mac (as Bob Stevenson)

Whitney De Rahm

as Hale

Naomi Childers

as Mrs. Cheney

Nani Palsa

as Adam

Kolimau Kamai

as Lono

Kamaunani Achi

as Mrs. Hale

Peter Lee Hyun

as Soong

Nohill Naumu

as Leilani's Father