The Hurricane (1937)

Directed by

Stuart Heisler, John Ford

Genre

drama film, action film, prison film, disaster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Polynesian man is wrongly imprisoned under a colonial government. A massive hurricane changes everything for him and the people on the island.

tensedramaticvisually lushadventuroussoberclimacticsoap-operatic

What happens

The Hurricane is a 1937 film set in the South Seas, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, about a Polynesian who is unjustly imprisoned. The climax features a "hurricane" generated through special effects. It stars Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, and Jerome Cowan. James Norman Hall, Jon Hall's uncle, co-wrote the novel of the same name on which The Hurricane is based. The movie was filmed in Pago Pago, American Samoa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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