The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Directed by

Chester M. Franklin

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

53 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese woman named Lotus Flower rescues and falls in love with an American man. He later returns to America without her. The film is a silent color adaptation of the Madama Butterfly story set in China.

melodramatictragicromanticvisually strikingsadhistoricalemotionalpoignant

What happens

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 film was written by Frances Marion and directed by Chester M. Franklin (brother of director Sidney Franklin), with the lead roles played by Wong and Kenneth Harlan. The plot was a variation of the Madama Butterfly story, set in China instead of Japan. The film was the second Technicolor feature (after 1917's The Gulf Between), and the first Technicolor color feature anywhere that did not require a special projector to be used for screenings. The film premiered on November 26, 1922, at the Rialto Theatre in New York City, and went into general release on January 22, 1923. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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