If you are a kid, you might find this ethnographic film interesting--mostly because there are so many bare-breasted young ladies in the film. However, this is NOT hot stuff--more like stuff I saw in "National Geographic" decades ago. But, back in 1932, this was about as hot as you'd normally find and I am sure many went to the film in the name of 'education'--only to really see some pubescent Balinesian babes. Hot stuff for 1932, but amazingly tame today.
About the only thing (other than breasts) that someone might be interested in this film relates mostly to die-hard cinephiles. These folks and film historians might be interested because this is the last of the Two-color Technicolor films made in the US. This process was abandoned because it did NOT produce true color, but various shades of blue-green and orange-red. In its best (such as in the original "Phantom of the Opera") it's striking, but all too often it just looks pretty washed out and weird--hence the move to a Three-color Technicolor in the mid-late 1930s. In addition, the film is of some mild interest because it's also the last silent produced by a major studio in America--Paramount. However, this film was made mostly for international release and it was pared down to remove the cleavage for audiences at home.
For the most part, you see a lot of bare-breasted women doing a variety of mundane tasks--too mundane actually. It's all strung together with a story, of sorts, about young romance and sisters who become rivals. But none of it is interesting enough to make you stay watching until the end. Mostly, it's tedious and only passable, at best, entertainment--very, very slow entertainment at that!
