The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee
Constance Bennett as Allana Wagner
Anders Randolf as Mr. Wagner
E. Alyn Warren as Lee Ying
Claude King as Bathurst
Frank Albertson as Kicker
Mildred Van Dorn as Eileen
Barbara Leonard as Mabel
James Eagles as Spud (uncredited)
Bess Flowers as Casino Patron (uncredited)
Robert Homans as Dugan (uncredited)
George Irving as Attorney (uncredited)
Dorothy Mathews as Alice Hart (uncredited)
Geneva Mitchell as Connie (uncredited)
Dickie Moore as Sam Lee as a Child (uncredited)
King Hou Chang as Moy
Frank Lloyd Director
Bradley King Dialogue
Bradley King Screenplay
Rex Beach Story
Ernest Haller Director of Photography
United States 09 March 1930
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This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
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