Wild Oranges (1924)

Directors

King Vidor

Cast

Virginia Valli, Frank Mayo, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post

The story

When John Woolfolk's wife dies in an accident, he vows not to open himself to future emotional harm. With a shipmate, Paul Halvard, he begins sailing around the world, coming to anchor near an isolated, dilapidated mansion on the Southern coast, inhabited by a young woman, Nellie Stope, and her grandfather, Litchfield, who lives in fearful seclusion after his experiences in the Civil War. The one other inhabitant is a brutish "servant," Iscah Nicholas, who terrorizes the other two and is later revealed to be an escaped convict and "homicidal maniac." Nicholas, a "man-child," lusts after Nellie and harasses her, placing her on a stump in…

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