Shipwrecked Among Cannibals

Shipwrecked Among Cannibals

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 4, 1920

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary, Adventure

Original Title

Shipwrecked Among Cannibals

Production Companies

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Director

Edward Laemmle

Revenue

$1,000,000

Description

After opening scenes showing volcanoes of Java, an underground river, waterfalls, cloud effects, a coral island, the Ghost Rocks of Buru, and a tiger hunt in Siam, documentary footage of the cannibal tribes of New Guinea is framed by a fictional narrative in which the scientific expedition is shipwrecked along the southern New Guinea coast in the land of the Kia Kia headhunters, thus affording the crew the opportunity to film the tribal customs of these cannibals.