Man and Woman (1920 film)
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Country United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Director Charles Logue, B.A. Rolfe Release date November 15, 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Man and Woman is a 1920 American silent film drama produced by A. H. Fischer, Inc. Directors were Charles Logue and B. A. Rolfe with Gene ODonnell and Conrad Wells (as A. Fried) as cinematographers. Logue wrote the story and the screenplay.
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Plot
A young Civil engineer builds a bridge that later collapses which causes him to mentally collapse. He retreats to a South Pacific Ocean island and becomes a beachcomber. Later one of his former engineering supervisors comes to the island with his daughter to repair a lighthouse. She bets the local Governor that she can dress up a beach bum to pass as a society swell. She picks the young former engineer. He decides to teach her a lesson and takes her to a leprosy colony where she is "treated like dirt". She learns her lesson and her father gives him a job at the lighthouse.