
A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl-fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.


Pearls, poisoned ledgers, and the Pacific eating its own reflection—this is not the escapist tropicana you expect from 1922. Most silent pictures set in the South Seas content themselves with hula skirts and papier-mâché volcanoes. The Man Unconquerable, directed by Edwin Stevens—who also gnaws the scenery as the ca...

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" Pearls, poisoned ledgers, and the Pacific eating its own reflection—this is not the escapist tropicana you expect from 1922. Most silent pictures set in the South Seas content themselves with hula skirts and papier-mâché volcanoes. The Man Unconquerable, directed by Edwin Stevens—who also gnaws the scenery as the cadaverous uncle in flashback—prefers the reek of copra smoke and moral mildew. From the first iris-in on a Boston counting-house where ceiling fans slice the air like guillotines, t..."
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