The Adorable Outcast is a 1928 Australian silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 directed by Norman Dawn

Norman Dawn

Norman O. Dawn was an early film director. He made several improvements on the matte shot to apply it to motion picture, and was the first director to use rear projection in cinema....

 about an adventurer who romances an island girl. The big-budget film was shot mostly on location in Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

. The film initially performed strongly at the box office but soon tailed off, and expected overseas success did not eventuate. It was estimated the combined losses of this and Norman Dawn's earlier film, For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 film)

- Plot summary :After a row, Ellinor Devine reveals to her husband Sir Richard that he is not actually the father of their son, also named Richard, but that he was fathered by her cousin, Lord Bellasis. Sir Richard throws his son out and storms off in a rage. Shortly afterwards, Richard Junior...

(1927) came to ₤30,000.

Cast

• Edith Roberts
  Edith Roberts
  Edith Roberts was a silent film actress from New York City. She was a child performer in vaudeville before she came to Hollywood, California in 1915....
  
  
• Edmund Burns
• Walter Long
  Walter Long (actor)
  Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...
  
  
• Arthur Tauchert
  Arthur Tauchert
  Arthur Michael Tauchert was an Australian actor best known for playing the title role in The Sentimental Bloke , which made him one of the most popular Australian screen stars of the 1920s...
  
  
• John Gavin
  John Gavin (director)
  John F. Gavin, born as John Francis Henry Gavin was an Australian film director, who was one of the early film makers of the 1910s. He was born and died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and was also known by the nickname "Jack"....
  
  

External links

• The Adorable Outcast at National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...