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The Adorable Savage

Aug 6, 1920 · 50m
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Drama
Romance

PLOT

Marama Thurston leaves her fashionable boarding school in America when her ailing father Jim Thurston, a plantation owner on Fiji, begs her to protect the rubber crop from his thieving son-in-law. Upon arriving on the island, Marama learns that she is a half-caste. Traumatized, she assumes native customs and agrees to marry Ratu Madri, the island's ruler. Templeton, an American fugitive living on Fiji, falls in love with her, but Marama rejects him, having pledged herself already to the Fiji chief. As Marama dances the prenuptial rite, Templeton attempts to rescue her. The natives seize the American, and Marama threatens suicide if they harm him. The couple escape during a hurricane, and soon after a yacht arrives with the news that Templeton has been exonerated of murder charges. Their problems thus resolved, they return to America to wed. A lost film.

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CAST

Edith Roberts
Marama Thurston
Jack Perrin
Templeton
Richard Cummings
Jim Thurston (as Dick Cummings)
Noble Johnson
Ratu Madri
Arthur Jervis
Frank Maddon (as Dr. Arthur Jervis)
Lucille Moulton
Moala
Lily Phillips
Akanesi
Olga D. Mojean
(as Olga de Mojean)
Directed by Norman Dawn

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country
US

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