Section 3: Patriotic Infidelity

     With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II, the issues of distrust and suspicion among the people in the islands was a focus of more Hollywood movies such as "Jungle Heat", released in 1957 with a plot of events prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Much discrimination towards locals were obvious in movies such as this.  One character views the locals as "a few steps removed from their primitive ancestors" and that they must be kept in line.

     Discrimination between locals and whites alike as well as labor problems were on the rise prior to Pearl Harbor's bombing.  In "Jungle Heat", we witness the belief by one plantation manager that "curiosity leads to laziness" in regards to the laborers of the plantations and organization within their ranks.  There is a common suspicion that Japanese are being snuck in to Hawaii and causing labor issues and accidents on the plantation that is the scenario for this movie.  The movie also includes suspicions on a Filipino plantation worker who may be behind the accidents occurring as well as a potential uprise by the laborers.

     As seen in Section 2:  Bombing Paradise, there is infidelity, distrust, and suspicions between the white men as well and the one white woman featured in the movie.  The locals are resigned to supportive roles with few speaking lines.  There are no luaus, or spectacular hula sequences in "Jungle Heat".  The movie evokes a negative connotation of what life in Hawaii was like prior to Pearl Harbor, and therefore not a place one would want to be.