
Captain Edward A. Salisbury (1875-1962) was a noted millionaire explorer and writer, whose exploration stories of the islands of the South Seas Pacific appeared often in "The National Geographic," and other magazines in the early part of the 20th-century, spent 18 months exploring the New Hebrides islands where head-hunting and cannibalism was practiced by some of the natives.

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Gow the Head Hunter is less a film in the modern sense and more a flickering window into a very particular, very uncomfortable slice of history. Is it worth watching today? Mostly ...
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1920 · IMDb 5
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