Under the Southern Cross also known as The Devil's Pit or Taranga, is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film set in New Zealand, directed and produced by Lew Collins for Universal Studios, who also wrote the screenplay.
It is one of four films (with Down on the Farm, Hei Tiki and On the Friendly Road) which claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the sound was added for the 1930 release in the United States.
For many years the film was believed to be lost until in 1980 the silent version of the 1930 part-talkie sound version was discovered by British film historian Kevin Brownlow under the title Dragon’s Pit.
The original director Alexander Marky was replaced a few weeks into filming.
War resumes, but love brings a compromise and Miro and Patiti marry.