This is an awful, very un-p.c. film , dealing in voodoo practices and inter-racial union with all the subtlety of Bernard Manning.
Mandy ( Georgette Harvey ) is a voodoo priestess with a light-skinned daughter Chloe ( Olive Borden ) . Chloe falls for a white man Wade Carson ( Reed Howes ) who saves her both from an alligator and a black rapist . The local blacks don't like this and plan to sacrifice her. That's what I can glean from a very muddled script in a film that jumps from one scene to another with little regard to narrative flow.
Olive Borden ( as Chloe )
Sex : Chloe is about to be raped at one point but is rescued before losing any clothes.
Death : Survives
Olive had been a big silent movie star but struggled to translate to talkies , not helped by a reputation for being greedy and difficult. This turned out to be her last film. She moved to New York and worked in vaudeville but struggled with alcoholism and was declared bankrupt . She worked in menial jobs then joined the army in 1942 winning a citation for bravery. She was honourably discharged with a foot injury and ended her days as a cleaner at a home for destitute women. She died ofg a stomach ailment and pneumonia in 1947 aged 41.
Molly O' Day ( as Joyce )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Molly, who's pretty superfluous in the film, was also coming towards the end of her film career which had peaked with The Patent Leather Kid in 1927. Born as Suzanne Noonan in 1911 she was the sister of the better known Sally O' Neil. She died in 1998 aged 87.
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