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Bird of Paradise (1932)

Name: Bird of Paradise
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1932
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Cast: Dolores del Río, Lon Chaney Jr., Joel McCrea, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, John Halliday

193283 minClassic DramaStrong rights evidence

Bird of Paradise (1932) is an 83-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silver Screen (CH 2) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by King Vidor.

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About Bird of Paradise (1932)

Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. Based on the 1912 play of the same name by Richard Walton Tully, it was released by RKO Radio Pictures.

As a yacht sails into an isolated tropical island chain somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a large number of islanders in outrigger canoes paddle out to greet it. The islanders dive for trinkets the yacht's crew throws them. A shark arrives, setting off a panic as much with the crew as the islanders. Johnny Baker attempts to catch it hand casting with a large hook, but is yanked overboard when a loop of line attached to the impaled shark cinches around his ankle. Comely native swimmer Luana cuts through the rope with a knife she had earlier been thrown as a trinket, saving his life.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Bird of Paradise (1932 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: King Vidor
Cast includes: Dolores del Río, Lon Chaney Jr., Joel McCrea, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, John Halliday, Bert Roach, Wade Boteler
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silver Screen - CH 2, Classic Cinema

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Play 1912 PD.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Play 1912 PD.
Source: Internet Archive

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