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The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin, produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, released by Metro Pictures, and featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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.
- (906)
- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Chester M. Franklin
- 1923-01-22
Apr 20, 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, released by Metro Pictures, and...
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- Cary Knoop
Jul 24, 2018 · 34. 2.9K views 5 years ago. When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an...
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- Old Movies Collection
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.
An American seaman (Kenneth Harlan) marries a Chinese girl (Anna May Wong), then deserts her.
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- Romance
The Toll of the Sea is one of the great technical achievements of film preservation. This earliest surviving feature in the two-color Technicolor process was restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive from a rare camera negative.
