 After his success with _Nanook of the North (1922)_ (qv), director  Robert J. Flaherty (qv) was asked by studio chief Jesse Lasky (who  would soon head Paramount) to make the same kind of film he had in  the Artic, except to make it this time in the South Seas. Thus, was  this "sequel" conceived. A commercial success in Europe, but not in  the U.S.