In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
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Anna May Wong as Hai-Tang
Alexander Granach as Coco
Nien Sön Ling as Mr.Wu
S.Z. Sakall as Paul Bennet
Elwood Fleet Bostwick as Mr. Working
Tilla Garden as Ellis Working - Mr. Working[s daughter
Gaston Jacquet as Baron de Neuve
Fred Louis Lerch as Fedja Kusmin
Otto Baecker Director of Photography
Heinrich Gärtner Director of Photography
Richard Eichberg Director
Adolf Lantz Writer
Hans Kyser Story
Papillon de la rue Trailer
City Butterfly Trailer
Germany 09 April 1929
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1929:
01 October 1929
Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer
10 February 1929
Red saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins from the hangman.
01 July 1929
Old timer Hank Robbins and his young pal,"Red" Hepner ride into the town of Cajon, Mexico and find it under a reign of terror imposed by a mysterious outlaw known as El Lobo.
18 February 1929
Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933) and Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa ("Our Boys in the Air – and We on Land", 1934), both of them also directed by Karu.
21 July 1929
In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss.
10 February 1929
It seems that an evil saloon owner not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis.
14 September 1929
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
21 November 1929
Young Veronika travels from her Tyrolean village to her aunt’s Viennese apartment for her confirmation.
31 March 1929
After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he hightails it to San Francisco in order to learn how to become a gentleman.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1929 British International Pictures, Richard Eichberg-Film GmbH.