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A Thief in Paradise(1925)
Status: Released
Date: 1925-06-18
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Time: 1h 20m
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Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
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George Fitzmaurice Productions
Movie: A Thief in Paradise
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Doris Kenyon
Helen Saville
Ronald Colman
Maurice Blake
Aileen Pringle
Rosa Carmino
Claude Gillingwater
Noel Jardine
Alec B. Francis
Bishop Saville
John Patrick
Ned Whalen
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Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
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1925-06-18
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