Ebb Tide (1922 film)
Ebb Tide 1922 is an American silent adventure film produced by Famous PlayersLasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by George Melford, and based on the novel The EbbTide by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story had been filmed before in 1915 by the Selig Polyscope Company.
Based on a review in a film publication, Ruth Attwater Lee lives with her father Richard Attwater Beery on an uncharted island in the South Seas. She has never seen another white man, and her father threatens to kill any who come to the island.Three derelicts are brought by fate by their boat to the island, and Richard invites them to dinner so he can show his collection of pearls and then kill them if they do not immediately leave. Robert Herrick Kirkwood, an Englishman who has made a failure of his life, sees Ruth and decides not to leave but hides. Captain Davis Fawcett and Huish Hatton plan to rob Richard of the pearls. They come ashore with a flag of peace, but Richard suspects their intentions and masters them. ........
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