The Adorable Outcast
The Adorable Outcast is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Norman Dawn about an adventurer who romances an island girl. It was one of the most expensive films made in Australia until that time, and was Dawns follow up to For the Term of His Natural Life 1927. It did not perform as well at the box office and helped cause Australasian Films to abandon feature film production.
A young adventurer, Stephen Conn Edmund Burns is in love with an island girl, Luya Edith Roberts. An evil blackbirder Fursey Walter Long kidnaps Luya to get hands on some gold, but Stephen rescues her with the help of Luyas tribe. When it is revealed that Luyas parents were white, she and Stephen are married.The bigbudget film was shot mostly on location in Fiji from April to June 1927, with some studio work done at Bondi Junction in Sydney. The three leads, Edith Roberts, Edmund Burns and Walter Long, were all established Hollywood actors. ........
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