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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 551

Male and Female

1919116 minUnited States
DramaAdventure
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
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115:59
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Synopsis

An aristocratic household is shipwrecked, leaving its members dependent on the practical abilities of their butler. On the island, inherited rank gives way to competence, and the woman who once dismissed him begins to imagine marriage. Rescue brings the group back to a society less willing to recognise the order they created for themselves.

Cast

DirectorsCecil B. DeMille

Inspirations

Cecil B. DeMille adapts J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, with Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan. The film tests the apparent permanence of class distinctions by moving the same people between a luxurious household and a survival community.

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Wikipedia — film referenceDuke Center for the Study of the Public Domain — US term reference

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