I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Just perfect...

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A very beautiful & romantic film. It's about a lovely native woman named Luana (Dolores del Rio) and the man that falls in-love with her, Johnny Baker (Joel McCrea). Luana is chosen by the other island natives to be sacrificed to the volcano. This is a story we've all heard of by now but this might be the first film on the subject matter. I discovered this film via Creighton Chaney. I was looking to watch a film from him that I have yet to see. He's not in this one very much, his character Thornton is more of a supporting role, but he did not have to be in this film for me to enjoy it. I'm glad to discover it because it's a wonderful story. 8/10

I think this must be one of the finest films I have ever seen and even as old as it is it leaves todays movies in ruins with its genuinity and simple uncomplicated plot. As mentioned Joel Macrae falls in love with the absolutely gorgeous Dolores Del Rio and the cultures end up dividing them in the end. It showed to me how civilized man wants to have his island love but then would like to take her back to civilization and what for. He would not have what he fell in love with. Simple Island life take it or leave it but don't try and get her back to another world she would never understand or appreciate. Very erotic kissing scene as islanders rub noses he kisses her and the actions lend to the imagination of what is really intended but all just a great film with lots of entertaining dancing music and island culture before the missionaries came and ruined it all to their puritanical ideals

Bird of Paradise is based on a 1912 play and the story of the beautiful native girl being sacrificed to a volcano is probably familiar to most moviegoers, but it was done here first and it showcases it's beautiful stars, Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea. It features some of the most beautiful black-and-white photography I've ever seen, and the music by Max Steiner is lovely. This piece of exotica has gotten a bum rap by many reviewers in the past, but it stands as a pleasant time-waster that will pass about an hour-and-a-half painlessly enough. The Alpha DVD print shows scratches and wear, but not enough to mar the enjoyment of the film.

What might have seemed fresh and daring material in 1932 emerges as tiresome, cliché ridden nonsense about a Polynesian girl (DOLORES Del RIO) and a handsome American (JOEL McCREA) falling in love at first sight and running from the local natives who want to sacrifice her to the Gods so that the island's volcano will not burst with anger. The story is that kind of trifle, easy to like if it works--but it just looks amateurish and awkwardly played by the two leads.It's the sort of island romance you'd expect Paramount to make later on during the '40s with Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall and preferably some Technicolor photography of an island paradise. Or maybe something with Maria Montez and Hall and Sabu at Universal. In fact, Montez might have made a more believable native girl.But RKO and David O. Selznick took a chance on this kind of material in the early '30s and got back very little for their effort. The Max Steiner score is a blurry fixture in the background on the bad soundtrack that TCM is offering when they show the film. The native chanting can hardly be ranked among his best scores.And the film's B&W photography is murky most of the time, appropriately so when the underwater sequences are shown but never with enough clarity throughout a bad print. When both picture and sound are at a low ebb, there's not much one can enjoy about a film like this.Summing up: Foolish nonsense then and now, not worth your time unless you have to see every film JOEL McCREA ever made, even the bad ones.Trivia note: CREIGHTON HALL in the credits is actually LON CHANEY, JR. and he has a tiny role, almost unnoticeable in what is really a bit part. Why another commentator says he gives a "great supporting performance" I'll never know.