A Thief in Paradise

APPROPIATE

1925 / 80min.

Rating6

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.

Directors

George Fitzmaurice

Actors

Claude Gillingwater

Ronald Colman

Alec B. Francis

Doris Kenyon

Aileen Pringle

John Patrick

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