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A Tale of Old Tahiti
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by [?] Bertram Bracken?
Cast: Ray Gallagher [Jacques], Mildred Bracken [Teria]
Méliès Star Films [American] production; distributed by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America through The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 31 January 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in 1912 in Tahiti. Only 48 prints of the film were sold.
Drama: South Seas.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Teria the daughter of Hoato-aru, one of the most influential chiefs of Tahiti, falls desperately in love with Jacques, a young midshipman of a French vessel which has dropped anchor off the island. She pleads with her father to secure Jacques as her husband. The French officers laugh in derision at the idea. So far does Teria’s love go that the chief orders Jacques taken prisoner. He is brought before Teria, and through force and seduction accepts her proposal. Jacques comes to love Teria, but loyalty to his country demands that he return. At every attempt at escape he is outwitted by Hoato-aru’s warriors, until at length the captain of the vessel sends out an expedition for him. At the very height of his love he is torn away from Teria, with only her last gift, a flower, with which to remember the sweetest experience of his existence.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Tahiti
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Tarbox-Lost pp. 91, 92, 142; Thompson-Star pp. 69, 70, 233 : Website-IMDb.
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