The Adorable Savage

The Adorable Savage
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Directed by Norman Dawn
Screenplay by Doris Schroeder
Based on Marama: A Tale of the South Pacific
by Ralph Stock
Starring Edith Roberts
Jack Perrin
Richard Cummings
Noble Johnson
Arthur Jervis
Lucille Moulton
Cinematography Thomas Rea
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • August 6, 1920
Running time
 50 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Adorable Savage is a 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.

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.

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