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White Shadows in the South Seas pop culture The story of the conflictedEven today, the Marquesas Islands beckon travelers yearning for an exotic and authentic Polynesian experience. Imagine the wonder of 1928 audiences when White Shadows in the South Seas took them thousands of miles from home to that remote Eden of rolling waves and palm fringed beaches. The first of W. S. Van Dyke's famed filmed on location adventures (the others: The Pagan and Trader Horn) tells a dramatic tale of foreign interlopers a booze sodden