The Adorable Savage

The Adorable Savage is a 1920 American silent adventure drama film directed by Norman Dawn and written by Doris Schroeder.

The film stars Edith Roberts, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, Noble Johnson, Arthur Jervis, and Lucille Moulton.

[2][3] Marama Thurston leaves her fashionable boarding school in America when her ailing father Jim Thurston, a plantation owner on Fiji, begs her to protect the rubber crop from his thieving son-in-law.

Traumatized, she assumes native customs and agrees to marry Ratu Madri, the island's ruler.

The couple escape during a hurricane, and soon after a yacht arrives with the news that Templeton has been exonerated of murder charges.