On the island of Bora Bora, enduring numerous hardships, the couple arrives at another island, but find that Tabu's curse has followed them. Their love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
If D.W. Griffith created the language of film, he left it up to his successors to add their own personal esthetics. On the short list of the cinema's all time greatest artists belongs the name F.W. Murnau.
The exquisite tragic ending -- conceived musically and rhythmically as a gradually decelerating diminuendo -- is one of the pinnacles of silent cinema.
