Owens suggests he and Colette team up to find Marechal but she is reluctant as she has genuinely fallen in love with Jean.

Colette tries to get rid of Mougins by telling him that Owens has hired a boat off a man called Wong Fu.

In May 1955 it was announced producer Paul Decharme, best known for Manon and Bluebeard, would make two films a year in the Pacific.

The first two would be co productions with Rafferty and Robinson, starting withWalk into Paradise, which would be shot on location in New Guinea, in English and French versions.

[10] In March 1957 Chips Rafferty announced the lead roles would be played by Françoise Arnoul, best known for Fire in the Blood and French Can Can, and John Forrest, who had been in Dust in the Sun.

By July 1957 the stars were announced as Martine Carol and Trevor Howard with five Australians, four men and a woman, to appear in the cast.

[12] Carol was a French film star who was attempting to move into international movies at the time, just having made Action of the Tiger with Van Johnson.

He was a mad home movies crank and would stand by the camera or even ten feet away from it and be shooting the scene that was his first take.

Right from the beginning I found I was in a marvellous position as the second follow-up director because I could see everything that was being done and then rack my brains for some little thing that might spice the scene up a bit.

[4] On 23 August 1958 Lee Robinson announced Dust in the Sun and The Stowaway were going to be released by Universal in Australia.

Robinson said, "I consider this deal is a relevant comment on recent statements that the Australian film industry is failing for lack of support.

Robinson blames this on the impact of television and says the losses he made on the film and Restless and the Damnded contributed to Southern International going broke.

Otherwise, this fairly hackneyed adventure yarn lacks the pace, mounting and acting to make color prints worth while for Yank chances... Ralph Habib’s cliche-ridden direction does not help instill life into this.

[1]The Sydney Morning Herald said "Robinson has little dramatic idea of how to handle his people (particularly Reggiani) or his plot.

Clumsy cutting, and stilted voice-dubbing for the Continental players, are technical faults astonishing in so elaborate a production.

"[20] The Age said "the color shots of Tahiti, its lagoons, girls and dances may warm your winter's day.