form y separately published work icon Isle of Escape single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas Campbell Dixon , Jack McLaren , 1926-1930 single work drama and Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas Jack McLaren , 1926 single work novel
Note: Based on a play 'Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas' by Campbell Dixon and Jack McLaren, derived from McLaren's novel of the same name.
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 Isle of Escape
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'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 kidnapped 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' (American Film Institute Catalogue).

Notes

  • Note on adaptation:

    Numerous reference sources indicate that this film was based on a play, which was in turn adapted from the novel. However, other sources, such as the Queenslander (see note below) suggest that the film was adapted directly from the novel.

  • There is a reference to the film made from this novel in The Queenslander, May 8, 1930, (p. 64)

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