The Isle of Conquest (1919)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1919-10-26
Director: Edward José
Writers: John Emerson , Arthur Hornblow , Anita Loos
Language: None
Stars: Norma Talmadge , Wyndham Standing , Charles K. Gerrard , Hedda Hopper , Natalie Talmadge , Claire Whitney , Gareth Hughes , Joseph W. Smiley , William Bailey , Merceita Esmond
Runtime: 60 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Call of Nature (United States of America) , The Broken Barrier (United States of America) , L'île déserte (France, French Republic) , The Isle of Conquest , Erobringens Ø (Denmark) , The Isle of Conquest (United States of America) , Paradisets lustgård (Sweden) , By Right of Conquest (United States of America)
Plot: Elegant widow Mrs. Harmon, finds her funds are quickly dwindling, sees that her charms cannot pull the wealthy Van Surdam away from his mistress Claire Wilson, she uses her daughter Ethel to bait him. Ethel marries to please her mother, but suffers from Van Surdam's brutality and learns to hate men. John Arnold, once a promising shipbuilder, but now a drunkard, hates women because earlier his fiancee Claire left him for Van Surdam. When Ethel accompanies her family on a cruise and their boat is torpedoed by a submarine, John, the ship's stoker, rescues Ethel and swims with her to a deserted island. After months of distrust, they learn to love each other and are about to perform a marriage rite when a rescue ship arrives. When Ethel repulses Van Surdam's advances on the ship and he attacks her, John saves her. Van Surdam, suspicious of their relationship, dies from a heart attack, and a year later John and Ethel marry.
IMDB:tt0010304