The Cave Girl is a 49-minute silent film released on December 26, 1921. The film is based on a play by George Middleton and Guy Bolton with the same name. The film was completed in Feb. 1921. The film was first screened at the governor's mansion in New York in June of 1921. The governor had recently spearheaded legislation that resulted in the formation of New York's Motion Picture Commission. This committee was tasked with the censorship of films.
It's believed that this film is lost.
CAST:
- Teddie Gerard as Margot (this was Teddie's debut film)
- Charles Meredith as Divvy Bates
- Wilton Taylor as J.T. Bates
- Elinor Hancock as Georgia Bates
- Lillian Tucker as Elsie Case
- Frank J. Coleman as Rufus Petterson
- Boris Karlo as Baptiste
- Jacob Abrams as Professor Sperry.
PLOT
Professor Sperry wanted to live a primitive life. He would take his daughter with him to a cave in the wilderness.
Meanwhile, Divvy Bates is being pressured to marry Elsie Case by Elsie's mother,Georgia Case, and Divvy's father, J.T. Bates. Elsie's mother wanted her to marry rich and Divvy was the perfect candidate. The two would arrange for Divvy and Elsie to have a trip to the Bates remote cabin. This was so Elsie could get the chance to extract a proposal from Divvy.
Margot would raid on the Bates supplies and gets caught. Divvy finds that he is attracted to Margot and Elsie gets jealous. She would compete with Margot for Divvy's attention. The hired hand Baptiste is fired and retaliates by burning down the cabin. The party is then forced to go to Professor Sperry's and Margot's cave.
Elsie was filled with anger and jealousy as she was seeing that her chance for her ad Divvy was fading away. She would then conspire with Baptiste to kidnap Margot. Margot would then be set adrift in a canoe. Elsie's conscience would make her realize how she did wrong and confessed to Divvy that Margot was in trouble. Divvy would then rescue Margot from the river rapids.
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