Summary
A giddy marooning on the lip of the known world: Clyde, a rubber-limbed mariner with the eyes of a startled gull, washes ashore on an island whose palms drip rumor of toothsome hospitality. While his shipmates shiver inside bamboo cages, Clyde—armed only with a pair of bone-white dice soaked in midnight sleight-of-hand—challenges the ochre-painted chieftain to a ritual gamble. Ivory clatters, gods are mocked, and every shrunken head on the perimeter seems to lean in. By dawn the sailor owns the tribe’s sacred conch, war-beaten drums, even the flayed tattoos that once flapped like prayer flags; he trades them for passage home, leaving the cannibals clutching empty stomachs and astonishment. The rescue vessel arrives as a mirage of smokestacks and canvas; Clyde boards lighter by the weight of one incredulous grin, pockets still rattling with the click of crooked fate.
Synopsis
Sailor Clyde and the rest of the ship wrecked crew are rescued from a cannibal island after Clyde wins all the paraphernalia of the cannibals with a pair of loaded dice.
Director
Clyde Cook
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