Dorothy Janis

Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.

Henry, el hijo pagano de un padre blanco y madre nativa, ha heredado la tierra y una tienda, pero él prefiere la vida sencilla. Cuando se enamora de una chica nativa, su tutor, que está tratando de educarla como un 'buen' cristiano, pero que también la desea, conspira para mantenerlos separados.

At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.

En una isla polinesia, un médico alcohólico, profundamente disgustado por la explotación de los nativos a manos de los blancos, se encuentra a sí mismo abandonado en una isla paradisíaca.