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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Never the Twain Shall Meet
	Film still
Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Peter B. Kyne; Eugene Mullin
Produced by	Louis B. Mayer; Irving Thalberg
Starring	Anita Stewart; Bert Lytell
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan; J.B. Shackelford
Edited by	W. Donn Hayes
Production; company	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	September 13, 1925;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1925 American silent South Seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur,^[1] starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit part. It was remade as talking picture in 1931 at MGM by director W. S. Van Dyke. This is one of Tourneur's many lost and sought after films.^[2]^[3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] Tamea, whose mother was Polynesian and her father French, leaves the island where her father governs and goes with him on a trade trip to San Francisco. When they arrive in port, the health officers find that the father is a leper, and he jumps into the water and is drowned. Tamea is taken to the home of Dan Pritchard, the junior partner of the firm that her father traded through. With his friend Mark Mellenger, Dan tries to show the visiter a good time around town. Although Dan is engaged to Maisie Morrison, a young society woman, his affections are drawn to Tamea. When she hastily leaves for home, Dan follows her. She falls violently in love with him and they are married according to the native custom of the island. The South Seas gets into his blood and Dan falls into moral dissolution. Mark arrives on the island to visit him with Maisie in tow. Dan returns to San Francisco and marries Maisie while Mark on the island to comfort Tamea.

Cast

Anita Stewart as Tamea
Bert Lytell as Dan Pritchard
Huntley Gordon as Mark Mellenger
Justine Johnstone as Maisie Morrison
George Siegmann as James Muggridge
Lionel Belmore as Gaston Larrieau
William Norris as Squibbs
Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Pippy
Princess Marie De Bourbon as Miss Smith
Florence Turner as Julia
James Wang as Sooey Wan
Ben Deeley as Doctor (*posthumous release)
Tom Ricketts as Andrew J. Casson (credited as Thomas Ricketts)
Ernest Butterworth as Captain Hackett
Roy Coulson as Assistant Doctor
Boris Karloff as Bit Part (uncredited)

References

^ Garza, Janiss (2012). "NY Times: Never the Twain Shall Meet". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Never the Twain Shall Meet". silentera.com. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
^ "Never the Twain Shall Meet". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
^ "New Pictures: Never the Twain Shall Meet", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (6): 60, May 2, 1925, retrieved January 25, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.