Through the Breakers
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Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1928-09-28
Runtime: 55 mins
Director: Joseph C. Boyle
Writer: Owen Davis, Harold Shumate
Spoken language:
Genres: Drama
Original title: Through the Breakers
Production Companies: Gotham Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
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