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The Adorable Savage (1920)

The Adorable Savage poster
Directed by
Norman Dawn
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman from the South Pacific is caught between two love interests. The story involves adventure and cultural clashes on a tropical island.

adventurousexoticold-fashionedmelodramaticromanticstagedserenenostalgic

What happens

The Adorable Savage is a lost 1920 American silent adventure drama film directed by Norman Dawn and written by Doris Schroeder. It is based on the 1913 adventure novel Marama: A Tale of the South Pacific by Ralph Stock. The film stars Edith Roberts, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, Noble Johnson, Arthur Jervis, and Lucille Moulton. The film was released on August 6, 1920, by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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