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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 ...
El tributo del mar es una película dirigida por Chester M. Franklin con Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran. Año: 1922. Título original: The Toll of the Sea. Sinopsis: En China, una mujer salva a un joven americano que está naufragando inconsciente. Luego los dos se enamoran.
A silent drama about a romance between an American man and a Chinese woman in China. The film was the first feature length film made in color and the first Technicolor film in Hollywood.
21 de may. de 2024 · In The Toll of the Sea (1922), a film lost for many years and only restored in 1985, an American named Allen Carver (Kenneth Harlan) washes up in the waves on Hong Kong’s shoreline. He is rescued by Lotus Flower (Anna May Wong), who plucks him from the tide. The couple fall in love and marry.
The Toll of the Sea pares down to essentials the story as popularized on the stage by Belasco and elevated to operatic tragedy by Puccini: An American man marries a young Asian but leaves her for a woman of his own race back in the United States.
When young Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water near the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American visiting China. Soon the two have fallen in love, and Carver promises to take her with him when he returns home.
The Toll of the Sea. Anna May Wong’s first starring role was based on a character from Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. A young Chinese woman, Lotus Flower (Wong), finds a white American man floating in the sea, saves him, and they fall in love. He promises to take her home with him, but he betrays her, returning to China with his white ...
