Coral Reefs (film)

Coral Reefs (French title: Le Récif de corail) is a 1939 French-language adventure film made in Germany.

Directed by Maurice Gleize, the screenplay was written by Charles Spaak, based on a novel by Jean Martet.

He meets a girl who is hiding in the wilds and the two fall in love, but they are pursued by a determined police detective.

In Brisbane, Ted Lennard kills a criminal in a struggle and manages to get aboard the Portland, a cargo ship bound for Mexico.

On the way the vessel stops at Togobu, an unclaimed coral reef inhabited by a few happy Polynesians and an Englishman who hates civilization.