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Tondelayo was a character in a 1942 movie entitled White Cargo. Hedy Lamarr played the role. The scene was a British plantation in Africa, and Tondelayo was a seductive "half-breed" who played self-serving games with any vulnerable white European male who happened to be around. Hedy Lamarr was appropriately steamy, and for awhile after the movie came out, "Tondelayo" was a fairly popular name for aircraft and small boats.

The person who did the review for Internet Movie Data Base is an idiot. He/she/it complains that the movie is "very reflective of America's aggressive ignorance toward South Pacific cultures of the time." The movie was pretty good, actually (by Forties standards), and the characters were supposed to be British, not American, and it didn't take place in the South Pacific, it took place in Africa. I'm not sure what movie he/she/it was thinking of, unless it was a Hope / Crosby "Road" picture with Dorothy Lamour (not Hedy Lamarr) wearing her trademark sarong.

Don Firth