Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socially Adrift...
...adrift on life's mighty ocean, where each mistake has its cost...
Mutilated body packed into a crate and set adrift, but there is a triangular birthmark−and a love affair...
...film which came out of all of this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they...
...batter their way to three moving targets on the Arctic ice packs. From the chaos of radio messages, authentic and faked, which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck, were lost to the world; three were attempting to reach the mainland on foot...