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Terror Island is a american film of genre Adventure directed by James Cruze released in USA on 8 april 1920 with Lila Lee

Terror Island (1920)

Terror Island
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Released in USA 8 april 1920
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OriginUSA
Genres Adventure
Rating54% 2.712662.712662.712662.712662.71266

Terror Island is a 1920 American silent adventure film produced by Jesse Lasky and directed by James Cruze. It is a starring vehicle for illusionist Harry Houdini here costarring with Lila Lee. This film listed as 7 reels by the AFI but two reels are lost/missing with only 5 reels remaining. The film had the working title of Salvage.

Synopsis

Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possesses. Also desirous of the pearl is Job Mourdant, Beverly's guardian, who kidnaps his ward and heads out to sea. Harry follows and saves Beverly when Mourdant throws her overboard.

Actors

Lila Lee

(Beverly West)Eugene Pallette

(Guy Mourdant)Frank Bonner

(Chief Bakaida)Ed Brady

(Captain Black)Rosemary Theby

(Stella Mourdant)Fred Turner

(Mr. West)
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