Out Yonder

Out Yonder is a surviving 1919 silent film drama directed by Ralph Ince and starring Olive Thomas.

[1] Piano score composed and performed by David Drazin Digital restoration and Titles by Joseph Harvat Off the shore of a rocky coastline, a large yacht sails.

Clarice tells him that another guest, Reggie Hughes (Cyril Chadwick), has taken Mrs. Elmer along “as ballast” on “another of his dreadful rowing excursions.” Upon hearing this, Edward says he fully expects a disaster any day now.

Flotsam explains that her name – literally “gift of the waves” – was given to her because on the day of her birth, a child's body was washed ashore by the sea.

He then tells Joey that Edward looks just like “him.” At dinner that night, Captain Bart is more troubled than ever, and Flotsam wants to know why he is so sad, but he won't say.

Downstairs, Joey wants to know when he can tell the Captain about him and Flotsam, to which she just laughs and says Nellie told her not to get involved with a sailor.

Joey is less than pleased, and thinks that now that Flotsam has met the rich Elmers, she’ll want nothing to do with ordinary people like him.

Coming down from the lamp gallery, Captain Bart sees a ghostly apparition outside the window, and his torment grows even worse.

As Flotsam declares to her mother than she is so happy, and puts on a lovely dress, Edward worries about what he will learn tomorrow.

Edward and Mrs. Elmer arrive the next day to speak with Captain Bart, who reveals in flashback that he once had John Hamilton aboard as a passenger.

When Edward finds out what Clarice did, he orders the yacht to the island, but Joey has gone up to the lamp gallery and turned off the light.

“And so,” reads the title card, “two hearts that had found each other in storm and gloomy night were finally united,” as Edward and Flotsam kiss.

Opening information on existing print: “The surviving copy of this film has credits and titles in Dutch.