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The Adorable Savage (1920)

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.

  • Drama
  • Romance

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Edith RobertsEdith RobertsMarama Thurston
  • Photo of Jack PerrinJack PerrinTempleton
  • Photo of Richard CummingsRichard CummingsJim Thurston (as Dick Cummings)
  • Photo of Noble JohnsonNoble JohnsonRatu Madri
  • Photo of Arthur JervisArthur JervisFrank Maddon (as Dr. Arthur Jervis)
  • Photo of Lucille MoultonLucille MoultonMoala
  • Photo of Lily PhillipsLily PhillipsAkanesi
  • Photo of Olga D. MojeanOlga D. Mojean(as Olga de Mojean)

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