"ACTION!...ROMANCE!...ADVENTURE!" 15 July 1930 Adventure, Action, Romance 68 mins
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
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Kenneth Harlan as Jim Thorne
Marceline Day as Ellen Bradford
Tom Santschi as Dutch Mike Lutze
Paul Hurst as Beauty
Betty Boyd as Poppi
Victor Potel as Swede
Gladden James as Roy Armstrong
Will Stanton as Limey
Ethan Laidlaw as Rowdy Sailor
Bert Glennon Director
M.B. Deering Story
Monte M. Katterjohn Writer
Byron Robinson Editor
Ralph M. DeLacy Sets & Props Supervisor
Max Dupont Director of Photography
United States 15 July 1930
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Ellen Bradford comes to the south sea island of Tonga to marry her fiancée and finds out he is a drunk. She also finds out that she is the only white woman on ...
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