''The Triumph of Love'' is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by

P. J. Ramster Percy John Ramster, better known as P.J. Ramster, was an Australians, Australian film director. He also ran an acting school, and his students often appeared in his films. One of his students was Paulette McDonagh who, along with her sisters, hi ...

. It is a South Seas romance starring

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, a Sydney lifesaver who was famous at the time for trying to save a swimmer from a shark. It is considered to be a lost film.

Plot

Four men and a young woman (Coo-ee Knight) are shipwrecked on an island in the South Seas. The men fight over the woman.

Production

The film was shot in April 1922, with interiors filmed the Palmerston studio in Waverley, and some location work in Queensland. The female lead Coo-Ee Knight was from Hobart.

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