Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery

Plot was no inhibition to the team’s often macabre fantasies. They aimed for “rattling good melodrama in which each episode ending leaves either the hero or heroine in peril, for the unexpected, which produces the pulse-stirring quality of adventure, of sudden quirks, mysteries and twists that keep the audience awake and glad they’re seeing the picture.”(65) In one episode of Lucille Love (which Universal claimed were “the most expensive two-reelers ever made!”(66))
300 imported Polynesians were employed in a specially constructed South Sea Island Village; they hail Lucille (Cunard) as their white goddess when she arrives fleeing Hugo Loubeque (Ford). But her white elephant (Universal’s familiar Anna May) stampedes, and they (Lucille and elephant) fall into a pit, and into an underground city inhabited by strange half-human, half-ape creatures, whom she befriends and leads back against Hugo and the natives.—senseofcinema.com