White Heat (1934)

In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl but instead of committing to her he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field The husbands native lover saves him from death Afterward his wife leaves to be with her old flame and the manager is free to be with the woman hes loved all along