Before I begin this review, I should note that it bears no relationship to the data in the IMDb listing, based on fragmentary inclusion in LYRISCH NITRAAT. Whether the problem is a misidentification by the the Eye Institute, where I found what purports to be the complete film, or the compilers of LYRISCH NITRAAT, who works with damaged fragments, is impossible for me to say with absolute certainty. However, I have written this review with the assumption that the Eye Institute is correct.
With the ship sinking, Captain Tefft Johnson sets his wife, Edith Storey, in a lifeboat. After he is rescued, he sets out and finds her on a desert island, living as the wife of Leo Delaney. Everyone will have to make choices.
There were two things that seem to have been far more common in the movies than in real life: lost civilizations scattered about Africa, and and desert islands with a couple of coconut trees and a shipwrecked man and woman. This surprisingly frank (for 1912) movie plays with the second trope in a fine fashion. Notice the way Edith and Leo are shot -- from behind and below -- when alone together. These shots tell what has happened in a convincing fashion and make them look like a very handsome couple, to make this a superior work.
With the ship sinking, Captain Tefft Johnson sets his wife, Edith Storey, in a lifeboat. After he is rescued, he sets out and finds her on a desert island, living as the wife of Leo Delaney. Everyone will have to make choices.
There were two things that seem to have been far more common in the movies than in real life: lost civilizations scattered about Africa, and and desert islands with a couple of coconut trees and a shipwrecked man and woman. This surprisingly frank (for 1912) movie plays with the second trope in a fine fashion. Notice the way Edith and Leo are shot -- from behind and below -- when alone together. These shots tell what has happened in a convincing fashion and make them look like a very handsome couple, to make this a superior work.