Underplayed Gems

The Chinese Bungalow (1930)

The Chinese Bungalow poster
Directed by
Arthur Barnes, J. B. Williams
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman becomes involved with a Chinese man and faces social consequences. The story is based on a play from the 1920s.

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What happens

The Chinese Bungalow is a 1930 British drama film directed by Arthur Barnes and J.B. Williams and starring Matheson Lang, Jill Esmond and Anna Neagle. It was based on the 1925 play The Chinese Bungalow. While working on the film J.B. Williams convinced the actress Marjorie Robertson to change her name to Anna Neagle the name under which she would become the most popular British actress in the 1940s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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