The Adorable Savage (1920)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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)

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