Post #673374 by creativenative on Thu, Apr 4, 2013 3:04 PM

Thanks for the info. WLM and welcome aboard Tiki Central and South Seas Cinema websites. I always felt the most proper way to "surf" the net is to surf Polynesia websites since surfing came from Polynesia :). Wikipedia is also ok to surf since wiki is a Polynesian word :).

Also posting to announce that the southseascinema.org has just finished updating. BUT, always a "but", because the research is never ending there is more. The last few years our research for South Sea-Tiki titles was slowing to a slow creep. Were we finally finishing up this grand assignment? Did we find everything there is to find on productions set in or influenced by Oceania? NOT! Last night we found 3 new shows alone. The three are: TWO-MAN SUBMARINE (1944) COLUMBIA Stars Tom Neal & Ann Savage a “who done it” WWII “B” movie involving a scientist, a shipwrecked surviving sailor, a two-man Japanese submarine off shore with Nazis inside and three natives on a South Seas island. The next two new finds are Poly Pop Pictures (which are not listed yet in the website but are added to our master research list)but for your edification they are; ST. LOUIS BLUES (1939) PARAMOUNT Broadway star who is tired of being stereotyped in South Seas plays runs off to disappear in a small Mississippi town. Guess who’s the star? There she meets and befriends un unsuccessful Riverboat owner. Together they put together a new show for the boat. One still has their dancers rehearsing a hula while you guessed it, Dorothy Lamour sits and watches in her sarong. And BACKDOOR FOLLIES (1948) RKO Short 19 mins. Stars Leon Errol who's wife calls the cops on neighbors club because of suspected strip teasing. Neighbor club owner sends one the girls over to convince Errol to cool his wife down. Lobby card has the dancers in hula outfits.

Also last night a key Society member found this on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQTNDIVLRo Entitled partly "Bizarre" which is correct but the reference of the movie which the clip came from was missing so after a email conference with some of the Society members we found that it was from a bizarre movie called DOWN TO THE LAST YACHT (1934) RKO although we knew this movie existed and it was criticized as a very bad movie none of us has ever seen it or any part of it till now. The critics were right. One of the worst in South Seas Cinema. But thank God for the net and sites like YouTube (until a clip gets pulled) and sites like TC & SSC.org! Long live tiki especially on the net! P.S. Now-a-days most of our images that we post or buy also comes from the net.

Ephemera on TWO-MAN SUBMARINE which help to confirm the production's existence.

Here's the production still from ST. LOUIS BLUES:

and a poster from BACKDOOR FOLLIES:

Tiki Movies & Tiki TV @ southseascinema.org

[ Edited by: creativenative 2013-04-04 15:13 ]