Andre Roosevelt, a cousin to US President Theodore Roosevelt, could afford to trot the globe filming safari and hunting expeditions, and footage from his travels and exploration was combined with some crudely-staged shots,in Hollywood, of him rescuing a ship captain---his sailing-ship captain E. Erskine Loch---and a woman from a cultish native tribe.
Paul Franklin, Monroe Shaff, J. Hoffman, Ethel La Blanche

Is it worth the watch? Look, unless you are a die-hard fan of 1930s exploitation oddities, you probably won't find much here. It is for the curious, the people who like watching movies that feel like a collage of bad ideas. If you want a coherent adventure, skip it. If you want to see what happens when a guy with too m...


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"Is it worth the watch? Look, unless you are a die-hard fan of 1930s exploitation oddities, you probably won't find much here. It is for the curious, the people who like watching movies that feel like a collage of bad ideas. If you want a coherent adventure, skip it. If you want to see what happens when a guy with too much money decides to play director, stay a while. The whole thing feels like a fever dream. You have real footage of the Caribbean that looks genuinely sun-drenched and dusty, the..."
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1920 · IMDb —
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