Isle of Escape


1h 2m 1930

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Adventure
Release Date
Mar 1, 1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Isle of Escape by G. C. Dixon, Jack McLaren (a play) Isle of Escape, a Story of the South Seas .

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 2m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Film Length
4,914ft (6 reels)

Synopsis

On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Adventure
Release Date
Mar 1, 1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Isle of Escape by G. C. Dixon, Jack McLaren (a play) Isle of Escape, a Story of the South Seas .

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 2m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Film Length
4,914ft (6 reels)

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