✗ SKIP — Not worth it
Li Ting Lang
1920 · 0h 50m · Drama
Skip it—this 1921 silent film is a fascinating historical artifact about racism and Sessue Hayakawa's trailblazing career, but the plot (where the Asian lead predictably loses the girl) actually reinforces the prejudice it claims to critique. Watch it for film history class, not for tonight's entertainment.
Plot
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).