Characters & Themes
White Heat (1934) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1934 · 62 mins · English
- Directed by
- Lois Weber
- Starring
- Virginia Cherrill, Hardie Albright, David Newell, Mona Maris, Naomi Childers, Arthur Clayton
In Hawaiian sugar plantations, the manager loves a native girl but marries a San‑Francisco socialite. The city wife struggles with plantation life, grows restless, and almost yields to a native suitor. When her former lover returns, jealousy sparks a fire; the native rescues the manager, and the wife leaves, freeing him to be with his true love.
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