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A missionary couple are lost in the desert. Their son Martin is raised by an Aboriginal tribe and becomes a 'leader' amongst them. Beatrice Lynne, a society journalist, is sent to look for him but she's captured by an Afghan camel driver, and sold to the very man she's looking for. Slowly she discovers that in fact he's far from what she regards as uncivilised.
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Book of the film of the same title. See Uncivilised (the film entry) for further details regarding the issue of authorship.
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Uncivilised
( dir. Charles Chauvel
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1936
Australia
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Expeditionary Films
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1936
Z1567702
1936
single work
film/TV
An action adventure, Uncivilised sees Beatrice Lynn, a successful novelist, journey into the 'unexplored' reaches of north-west Australia to research a book about an Aboriginal tribe who is believed to be ruled by a white king, Mara. On the way there she is abducted by an Afghan trader, but the strange song of the Mara echoes through the jungle. The white chieftain later buys her from the Afgani, and attempts to win her love. Meanwhile opium smugglers try to buy Mara's collection of fabulous rubies, as war breaks out between Mara and a renegade Aboriginal warrior called Moopil. Beatrice finds she is falling in love with Mara, as a great battle begins.
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