Miss Robinson Crusoe (1912 film)

Miss Robinson Crusoe is a 1912 silent film romance-adventure produced by the Thanhouser Company starring Florence LaBadie and James Cruze.

When they discover that a young nobleman is courting her, they arrange for her to accompany the count and his mother on an ocean liner cruise bound for the tropics.

Unbeknownst to him, the girl has survived the disaster and finds herself a castaway on a tiny island occupied solely by hostile indigenous people.

A prisoner in her own domain, the inhabitants are loath to relinquish her, and a violent struggle ensues between the young American and the natives to possess her.

Allowing that "the photoplay is well carried out to the end," the review concluded by informing readers that "A reel and a half are necessary for the tale.

"[1][3] Literature and film critic Edward Wagenknecht declares that Miss Robinson Crusoe "does not deserve to be memorialized; it must have been a terrible picture."

The heroine (Florence LaBadie) was wrecked on a desert island, after which she appeared dressed in a leopard skin (as I remember it) and nothing more.

Florence LaBadie