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China Bound (1929)

China Bound poster
Directed by
Charles Reisner
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy from 1929 about someone traveling to China. It contains racial content that is now considered offensive.

datedlightheartedplayfulslapstickuncomfortableobscurefast-pacedsilly

What happens

China Bound is a 1929 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is rarely seen today due to some of its Asian racial content. A scene from the film was shown in the comedy retrospective MGM's Big Parade of Comedy (1965). Copies of the film are held at the George Eastman Museum and Filmoteca Española (Madrid). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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