one will look for them. However, De Laage discovers their preparations and commandeers the schooner to hunt them down. Terangi turns back to warn his people after he sees birds fleeing the island, an unprecedented, ominous event that Marama had dreamed about many years before. A once-in-a-lifetime hurricane strikes the island. A few, among them Dr. Kersaint and his pregnant patient, weather the disaster in a canoe, while Terangi ties his family and Madame De Laage to a stout tree. The rest drown, and the island is stripped bare. The tree floats away. Terangi later finds a war canoe in the water, which he uses to get his party to a small island. When they spot the schooner, Terangi signals it with smoke before fleeing in the canoe with his family. Governor De Laage embraces his wife, but then spots something on the water through his binoculars. Madame De Laage insists it must be a floating log; after a pause, her husband agrees with her. Cast Dorothy Lamour as Marama Jon Hall as Terangi Mary Astor as Madame Germaine De Laage C. Aubrey Smith as Father Paul Thomas Mitchell as Dr. Kersaint Raymond Massey as Governor Eugene De Laage John Carradine as Warden Jerome Cowan as Captain Nagle Al Kikume as Chief Mehevi Kuulei De Clercq as Tita Layne Tom Jr. as Mako Mamo Clark as Hitia Movita Castaneda as Arai Production Actor Jon Hall had appeared in a number of roles under different names. He kept the name "Jon Hall" for the rest of his career. Awards and nominations The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning in the category for Best Sound. Best Sound Recording - Thomas T. Moulton Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Thomas Mitchell Best Music, Score (nomination) - Alfred Newman Critical reception The New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent praised the climactic special effect created by James Basevi, stating, "It is a hurricane to blast you from the orchestra pit to the first mezzanine. It is a hurricane to film your eyes with spin-drift, to beat at your ears with its thunder, to clutch at your heart and send your diaphragm vaulting over your floating rib into the region just south of your tonsils." He complimented the performances of all of the principal actors with the exception of Hall, whose Terangi was described as "a competent Tarzan". Nugent also faulted the uneven pacing,