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The Idol Dancer


Date: 1920
Type: Drama
Rating: 2 Stars 2/5
Colour: Black and White / Silent
Director: D W Griffth
Producer:

Comment/Synopsis

American missionaries on a South Sea island come into conflict with a local girl and a beachcomber when trying to impose their ideas upon the natives. This is not the best of D W Griffth's films, not least because of its dubious ethical and racial overtones. Clarine Seymour gives a mixed performance, but it is her performance that carries the film.

Actors


Richard BarthelmessRichard Barthelmess
Clarine SeymourClarine Seymour
Creighton HaleCreighton Hale
George MacQuarrie
Kate BruceKate Bruce
Florence Short

Oscars

None
Production
D.W. Griffith Productions