Weber and Gantz spent five weeks on location in Kauai, Hawaii from August 24, 1933, as she had been hired by the Seven Seas Corporation to direct Virginia Cherrill (then the fiancée of Cary Grant) and Mona Maris in "Cane Fire", a tale of racial prejudice and miscegenation on a Hawaiian sugar plantation. Made on a low budget on the plantations of the Kekaha Sugar Company and the Waimea Sugar Company and at Alexander McBryde's Lawai Kai estate, it was the first film shot on the island of Kauai. It was released as "White Heat" by the Pinnacle Production Company on June 15, 1934 to limited "commercial and critical success", with Weber quoted as saying at the time that the film "was not a hit but will not lose any money".