South of Suva

South of Suva is a 1922 American silent drama film starring Mary Miles Minter and directed by Frank Urson.

[2] As described in various film magazine reviews,[3][4][5][6] Phyllis Latimer (Minter) is sailing to Suva in the Fiji Islands to join her husband Sydney (Long), whom she has not seen since their marriage three years previously.

When Phyllis arrives at her husband's plantation, she finds that Sydney has degenerated into a brutal drunk and surrounded himself with native women.

When Sydney is knocked unconscious by a falling canopy Phyllis flees, but she does not have the money to pay for her return passage.

Phyllis seeks refuge with John Webster, and uses her knowledge of Pauline from the voyage to successfully pose as his ward.

Mary Miles Minter in "South of Suva" (1922)