The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
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Cast
- Elizabeth AllanNettie Vollar
- Anna May WongPrincess Taou Yuen
- John LoderGerrit Ammidon
- Edmund GwennJeremy Ammidon
- Ralph RichardsonWilliam Ammidon
- Herbert LomasBarzil Dunsack
- George CurzonEdward Dunsack
- John MarrinerJohn Stone
- Grey BlakeRoger Brevard (as Gray Blake)
- Roy EmertonBroadrick
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- J. Walter RubenDirector
- Thorold DickinsonDirector
- Gordon WellesleyScreenplay
- Martin BrownScreenplay
- Joseph HergesheimerNovel
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