- The Charnocks, a wealthy landowner family from Virginia, take their yacht on a cruise to the South Pacific. The yacht catches fire near a desert island, and while John Sr. dies in the fire, his wife and son make it to the island, where she soon dies. Twenty years later Katherine Brenton, a wealthy young woman, is on a yacht trip in the South Pacific with playboy Valentine Langford, testing her theory that men and women can have platonic relationships under any conditions. When Langford makes a pass at her she knocks him out and flees the yacht for a nearby desert island--which happens to be the same one that young John Charnock was stranded on 20 years earlier. They soon find each other. Complications--and an earthquake--ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- John Charnock. his ailing wife and little boy, John, are on a trip around the world on Charnock's private yacht, Namsemond. The yacht catches fire while in the South Pacific Ocean and Mrs. Charnock, her son, and Rover the dog, are the only ones who escape from the burning vessel. Drifting in an open boat for several days, they land on an uninhabited island. The life of a castaway is too severe for Mrs. Charnock and she dies, leaving John, Jr., a lonely occupant of the island. Twenty years now elapse. Katherine Brenton, a high spirited wealthy young lady, becomes imbued with certain radical ideas in regard to the conventions supposed to exist between man and woman. Valentine Langford, a wealthy clubman, desiring to possess the beautiful preacher, becomes one of her converts and suggests they put their theories to the test by taking a trip together on his yacht. All goes well until they reach the southern waters of the Pacific Ocean when Langford's real object begins to assert itself and she comes to the full realization of his nature. To escape from his brutality, Kate goes off in a power launch and after her fuel is exhausted drifts until she reaches an island, where she is found by Charnock, now a full-grown man and the only inhabitant. Fresh from her encounter with Langford, she is suspicious of all men and it is quite some time before she realizes that Charnock has been alone on the island practically all his life and knows nothing of the usages of civilization. While exploring the island, Kate finds the remnants of a small boat and the remains of a woman and dog together with trinkets and other things that convince her the strange man is John Charnock, supposed to have been lost twenty years ago. She at once proceeds with his education, molding him into a being imbued with her ideals, but in the process which extends over three years, realizes through her increasing love for him her beliefs were wrong. In the meantime, Langford, who had returned to his home in San Francisco, becomes convinced that Kate might have landed on one of the numerous islands in the South Pacific, fits up his yacht for an extended cruise, intending to explore every island he could find. An earthquake on the island and a daring rescue by Charnock, bring the pair to a realization of their love for each other, which is uninterrupted until one day Kate, sighting a ship, lights a beacon that brings Langford and the captain of a man-of-war, attracted by the smoke. There is a reckoning between Langford and Charnock. Langford accuses Kate of their having been together on his yacht for two weeks. Charnock's love for her is shaken and she refuses to leave the island until he comes to a realization of her innocence. Charnock leaves on the man-of-war, but becomes restless, returns to the island and finding Kate's clothes at the edge of a pool, thinks she is dead. Again going aboard the man-of-war, he is taken to the United States, where he establishes his identity and assumes charge of his father's estate. The discovery of coal on his land makes him a rich man and mourning Kate as dead, he determines to start the Katherine Brenton Foundation for the benefit of the poor. When Charnock left on the man-of-war, Langford could not believe that Kate was dead and returned to the island. Finding Kate, who had been hiding, he realizes his case is hopeless and at her pleading, promises never to reveal that she is living, and on going away, leaves her with supplies. Reaching San Francisco, Langford hears of the Foundation, and although sick, journeys to Charnock's home in Virginia to tell him he had better go back to the island, but does not break his word to Kate. Charnock, every hope rekindled, fits out a ship and returns to the scene of his exile, to find Kate anxiously awaiting his coming.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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