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Isle of Escape (1930)

NR ★ 6.0/10 60 min Drama United States English
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Description

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.

Top Cast

Monte Blue
Monte Blue Dave Wade
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy Moira
Betty Compson
Betty Compson Stella
Noah Beery
Noah Beery Shane
Ivan F. Simpson
Ivan F. Simpson Judge
Jack Ackroyd
Jack Ackroyd Hank
Nina Quartero
Nina Quartero Loru
Duke Kahanamoku Manua

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