Film

White Heat

1934 · 1h 2m · Drama · Romance

IMDb

6.8

Rotten Tomatoes

40%

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.

Virginia Cherrill

Lucille Cheney

Mona Maris

Leilani

Hardie Albright

Chandler Morris

David Newell

William Hawkes

Arthur Clayton

Armia

Robert R. Stephenson

Mac (as Bob Stevenson)

Whitney De Rahm

Hale

Naomi Childers

Mrs. Cheney

Nani Palsa

Adam

Kolimau Kamai

Lono

Kamaunani Achi

Mrs. Hale

Peter Lee Hyun

Soong

Nohill Naumu

Leilani's Father

• Lois WeberWriter · Director
• James BodreroWriter · Story
• Frank TitusDirector of Photography
• Alvin WyckoffDirector of Photography

Release date

December 30, 1934

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 2m

Genres

Drama, Romance

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