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Title:The Idol Dancer


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

Comment
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