A Polynesian sailor, a marriage interrupted by a prison cell, and a storm that answers to no authority form the three strands of The Hurricane, a 1937 American feature directed by John Ford. The film runs 104 minutes and is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles.
What is The Hurricane about?
The story is set on an island in Polynesia, where a local sailor lives with his wife. A clash with a colonial bully leaves him behind bars: he acted to defend himself, yet the authorities treat the incident as a crime and hand down a sentence that the islanders see as unjust. Inside, he endures harsh treatment under the island's strict commander, while outside, people from the community appeal to the governor to grant clemency. Then the weather intervenes. A tropical storm gathers over the ocean, and once it strikes, the careful arguments about rules and order count for little against wind and water.
About the cast
Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour head the credited cast, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Jerome Cowan and Al Kikume completing the ensemble listed for the film. The plot sorts its characters into two circles: the islanders upended by the sailor's imprisonment, and the officials on the colonial side who disagree about what the law demands. John Ford directed.
Context & significance
The genre label on file combines action, drama and romance, and the film moves through all three in turn: romance in the marriage at its centre, drama in the legal and moral dispute over the sailor's sentence, and action once the storm arrives. At 104 minutes it is a compact feature. The setting, an island community in Polynesia under colonial administration, serves as the backdrop to a personal story, and the question of whether a rule should bend for a single case runs through the plot. In this 1937 production, a natural disaster works as the turning point of the narrative rather than as an opening spectacle.
Watching The Hurricane on Ktime
The Hurricane streams on K-Time for anyone signed in with a K-Time account; this page itself is free to read without one. The title carries both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched entirely in Farsi or in its original language with Farsi text on screen. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking audiences in the diaspora, with a Farsi interface throughout.