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McVeagh of the South Seas

McVeagh of the South Seas

1914Movie⏱️ 59m
Drama
4.7
IMDB Rating
57 votes

A brutal, sadistic overseer runs a pearl-diving operation on a South Seas island and treats the natives terribly, torturing them and violating their women. A local native girl falls in love with him, despite his sadistic tendencie...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Harry Carey, Fern Foster, Herbert Russell
Release Date
November 2, 1914
Language
None, English
Country
United States
💬 3
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Harry Carey
Harry Carey
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
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Fern Foster
as Liana
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Herbert Russell
as 'Pearly' Gates
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Kathleen Butler
as Nancy Darrell
Jack Terry
Jack Terry
as Harmon Darrell

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Production
Progressive Motion Picture Company

🏷️ Keywords

shipwreckuprisingsouth seasdissipationsolomon islands

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

As good as any US film of 1914
by kekseksa2018-05-07

"Very few of the people reviewing this film seem to properly take into account how early it is. They talk blithely about "silent films set in the South Seas" although they would be hard put to find another of this date. If they have a long list of "South Sea" films made in or around 1914, perhaps they would like to post it somewhere because they evidently know something I do not know. Although in its existing print it has evidently been re-edited for its 1922 re-release, it is basically a film of 1914 - made that is to say before D. W. Griffith had made any full-length fil..."

📖 Synopsis

A brutal, sadistic overseer runs a pearl-diving operation on a South Seas island and treats the natives terribly, torturing them and violating their women. A local native girl falls in love with him, despite his sadistic tendencie...