In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).
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Sessue Hayakawa as Li Ting Lang
Allan Forrest as Rob Murray
Charles Mason as Red Dalton
Doris Pawn as Marion Halstead
Frances Raymond as Priscilla Mayhew
Marc Robbins as Prince Nu Chang
United States 24 July 1920
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