The Adorable Savage (1920)
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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.
- Release date
- August 6, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Edith Roberts as Marama Thurston
- Jack Perrin as Templeton
- Richard Cummings as Jim Thurston
- Noble Johnson as Ratu Madri
- Arthur Jervis as Frank Maddon
- Lucille Moulton as Moala
- Lily Phillips as Akanesi
- Olga D. Mojean
- Arthur Jasmine as Undetermined Role
- June King as 3 Year Old Marama Thurston
Crew
- Norman Dawn · Director
- Doris Schroeder · Writer
- Ralph Stock · Writer
- Thomas Rea · Cinematographer