An American man on a South Pacific Island receives a dear John letter from his fiancee. A lovely native girl decides to console him.
If you are looking for a lost masterpiece of the late silent era, you can probably keep moving. Through the Breakers is really only for the completists, the people who have a weird obsession with how 1920s Hollywood imagined the South Pacific, or fans of Margaret Livingston. If you hate slow-moving melodramas where the...
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"If you are looking for a lost masterpiece of the late silent era, you can probably keep moving. Through the Breakers is really only for the completists, the people who have a weird obsession with how 1920s Hollywood imagined the South Pacific, or fans of Margaret Livingston. If you hate slow-moving melodramas where the 'exotic' elements feel like they were staged in a dusty corner of a backlot, you’ll probably want to skip this one. The whole thing starts with Holmes Herbert as Eustace. He’s on..."
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