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A Trip to Chinatown (1926)

A Trip to Chinatown poster
Directed by
Robert P. Kerr
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rated
NR
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy from 1926 based on an old Broadway musical. It follows a group of characters getting mixed up in misunderstandings and romantic entanglements in a Chinatown setting.

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What happens

A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr. Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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