bird of paradise surely rank a one of king vidor bad effort in fact it hard to believe that the man who create the crowd and the big parade could be involve with something as shoddy a this . dolores del rio be hopelessly miscast a an island girl who fall for joel mccrea and the seaman who virtually rap her before jump ship . we see lot of appallingly stereotypical native ( even for the period ) and the writing be suffuse with the bad racist instinct . vidor redeem himself later in his career with the thoughtful japanese war bride and but this be a depressing lowpoint in his ouevre .