South Sea Rose

South Sea Rose

1929 · 69 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Drama

A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...

Directed by Allan Dwan · Written by Sonya Levien

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