Black Paradise

Black Paradise is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, and Edmund Lowe.

[1] In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancé, James Callahan, who has recently turned back to his criminal ways, flee the city after Jim steals a diamond necklace due to frustration with his job search.

Detective Graham pursues them to a remote island in the South Pacific, where they encounter a gangster named Murdock.

Callahan becomes enamored with a local woman named Leona, while Sylvia seeks refuge with Graham from Murdock's advances.

As tensions rise, a volcanic eruption adds further complications to their predicament.

Black Paradise publicity still , 1926