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Anna May Wong on the set of The Toll of the Sea. In 1919, a young Chinese woman, Lotus Flower, sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, and quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married "Chinese fashion".
The Toll of the Sea: Directed by Chester M. Franklin. With Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran. While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
- (872)
- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Chester M. Franklin
- 1923-01-22
Vor einem Tag · The Toll of the Sea, directed by Chester M. Franklin (Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, 1922). In The Toll of the Sea (1922), a film lost for many years and only restored in 1985, an American named Allen Carver (Kenneth Harlan) washes up in the waves on Hong Kong’s shoreline. He is rescued by Lotus Flower (Anna May Wong), who plucks him ...
20. Apr. 2018 · The Toll of the Sea (1922) is an American silent drama film, directed by Chester M. Franklin, produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, release...
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- 31K
- Cary Knoop
7. Feb. 2015 · Originaltitel: The Toll of the Sea / AT: El tributo del mar. Lotusblume ist ein Drama aus dem Jahr 1922 von Chester M. Franklin mit Anna May Wong und Kenneth Harlan. Komplette Handlung und...
The film, The Toll of the Sea, a gem of the silent era that turns one hundred this year, was made in Hollywood under unusual circumstances. The inspiration for it didn’t come from a director or screenwriter but from “two great scientists,” as a 1922 advertisement declared.
The Toll of the Sea pares down to essentials the story as popularized on the stage by Belasco and elevated to operatic tragedy by Puccini: An American man marries a young Asian but leaves her for a woman of his own race back in the United States. After he learns of his mixed-race son, his understanding white wife urges adoption. In an act of ...
