In this one, a ship crashes on a reef, a White straggler half-drowned, is rescued by a tribe of Natives on a beach. He is dragged to safety and nursed back to life. Neither he nor the primatives understand one another.
When his health returns, he quickly catches the eye of the beautiful, luscious, dark-skinned Chief's daughter who has been his nurse throughout his ordeal. She, of course is taken too by this handsome, mysterious, muscular White Man, but the Chief makes no bones about the unspoken edict that he is not to mess with his precious child, that she is from another world. Regardless, they sneak embraces and forbidden smooches in the bushes.
One day, the dormant volcano on the island suddenly erupts.and the Natives go berserk! The castaway looks with wonder at the mayhem. The Chief calls a town house meeting, but it is all giberish to him. Suddenly, the daughter approaches her father and he looks deeply into her eyes then at the volcano, and the significance of glance slowly dawns on the White Man. She looks with submisiveness at the father and he at her. She will be sacrificed to the volacano!! He rushes towards her, to stop this primitive madness but is surrounded by the villagers and lashed to a coconut tree.
With tears in her eyes she makes her way up the volcano. She looks down at him. He lunges towards her to no avail. Higher up the slope she edges. This is madness!! When she reaches the cone, it is furiously sputtering molten lava into the heavens and she gazes longingly one last time at her dream lover below. "No! No! No!!" He cries. But it is too late. She leaps into the volcano and a gigantic plume emerges. And the eruption subsides, and dies!
There is a long and awkward silence in the room. Suddenly, one of my buddies mumbles, "God, if only she had waited five minutes more...." Like a volcano, we erupt in laughter and roll around on the dirty carpet until our stomachs hurt."What a waste", somone mutters and we explode again.
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