The Adorable Savage (1920)
50m
Running Time
August 6, 1920Release Date

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 & Crew.

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)

Ralph Stock
Novel

Arthur Jasmine
Undetermined Role

Thomas Rea
Director of Photography

June King
3 Year Old Marama Thurston

Norman Dawn
Director

Doris Schroeder
Writer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
lost film
fiji
island
based on novel or book
Wiki.
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.