Girl of the Sea


1920

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Submarine Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Republic Distributing Corp.
Country
United States

Synopsis

Stephen Verrill dies, leaving the deed to a valuable gold mine to his wife and child. Verrill's widow, planning to establish a company to operate the mine, sails aboard the steamer Caribee bound for New York. With the aid of Allen, the mate, Cuttle, a notorious trader, scuttles the ship on a wild coastline. As the lifeboat drifts towards a small island, it is overturned by a giant octopus, and the baby is washed ashore, the mine deed tied to her neck. As Verrill apparently has no heirs, his property reverts back to the state and Cuttle buys it. Ten years later, Tom Ross, the son of the Caribee 's captain, determines to prove his father's innocence and returns to the South Sea island where he finds Mimi Verrill, now grown to adulthood. After obtaining proof of his father's murder, Tom returns home with Mimi where they fight to reclaim the mine. After many arduous confrontations with Cuttle, the villain is devoured by a shark, Mimi regains her claim to the mine and marries Tom.

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Submarine Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Republic Distributing Corp.
Country
United States

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This film was also known as The Girl of the Sea. Williamson produced several other underwater pictures. The Williamson Submarine Corp., operated under the Williamson brothers, pioneered undersea photography with their Williamson submarine tube camera, which was invented by Charles Williamson, the father of the Williamson brothers. Many scenes in the film were shot in the West Indies. The company was located in Nassau in the Bahamas.