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Summary View of Movie Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Her Elephant Man Director: Scott Dunlap (Dir) Release Date:   Feb 1920 Print this page Display Movie Detail Cast: Shirley Mason  (Joan)   Albert Roscoe  (Col. Philip Dorset)   Henry J. Hebert  (Blake)   Summary: After discovering that his bride has married him only for his money, Philip Dorset journeys to Africa in hopes of putting the past behind him. In the jungle, he teams up with a party of American circus men on an elephant hunt. Their expeditions take them to a native village where they discover Joan, an orphaned white girl whose missionary father has recently died. The group, now enhanced by Dorset's addition as the elephant trainer, takes the waif back to America with them. Years pass and Joan becomes an accomplished bareback rider in the circus, while her affection for Dorset deepens into love. Recalling his earlier unhappy experience, Dorset tries to discourage the girl, and upon failing decides to leave the circus. Soon after his departure, he discovers that his wife has divorced him and rushes back to Joan. That night, a terrific storm strikes the circus tent and out of the cataclysm the lovers are reunited.  Distribution Company: Fox Film Corp. Production Company: Fox Film Corp. Director: Scott Dunlap (Dir) Producer: William Fox (Pres) Writer: Isabelle Johnston (Scen) Subject Major: Africa   Animal trainers   Circus performers   Circuses   Orphans   Subject Minor: Divorce   Elephants   Fortune hunters   Horsemen and horsewomen   Hunting   Jungles   Storms Display Movie Detail

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