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The Hidden Pearls

The Hidden Pearls

1918Movie⏱️ 50m
Drama

Having been reared and educated in America, the son of an American pearl trader and a Hawaiian island princess knows nothing about life on his mother's island. He and Enid Benton are engaged, and when word comes that he has lost h...

Director
George Melford
Writers
N/A
Stars
Sessue Hayakawa, Margaret Loomis, Florence Vidor
Release Date
February 18, 1918
Language
None, English
Country
United States
💬 1
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa
as Tom Garvin
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Margaret Loomis
as Tahona
Florence Vidor
Florence Vidor
as Enid Benton
Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts
as John Garvin
James Cruze
James Cruze
as Koro Leon
Noah Beery
Noah Beery
as Teariki
Clarence Geldert
Clarence Geldert
as Captain A. Todd
Jack Holt
Jack Holt
as Robert Garvin
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as Senator Joseph Benton
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Henry Woodward
as Ensign Brooks

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Hawaii, USA
Production
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company

🏷️ Keywords

pearlhawaii

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

Melodrama
by boblipton2007-09-08

"Sessue Hayakawa shot to stardom in Demille's THE CHEAT and his employers didn't know quite what to do with him. A Japanese actor, he couldn't be a romantic hero in the United States, so they made him into a melodramatic hero of a non-white race -- here he plays a half-Polynesian -- who suffered for his love -- usually of a White American woman -- and redeemed himself from the implied sin of miscegenation by suffering or dying. This went on for a couple of years until he was able to produce his own independent features. In the midst of all of this, of course, one is struck mostl..."

📖 Synopsis

Having been reared and educated in America, the son of an American pearl trader and a Hawaiian island princess knows nothing about life on his mother's island. He and Enid Benton are engaged, and when word comes that he has lost h...