Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Nov 2, 2024
Details
The Silent Cinema Showcase returns with another selection of newly restored screen classics and rare gems from the silent era.
Special Features: Silent with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
In his penultimate collaboration with actress Priscilla Dean, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name, writer/director Tod Browning weaves an intricate crime drama that also features a pivotal supporting performance from 18-year-old Anna May Wong in one of her first film roles. Dean delivers a steely, multifaceted turn as Cassie Cook, a jaded young woman involved in the Shanghai opium trade. Her sights are set on escape, and she has made up her mind to return to America with her drug-addicted friend Molly Norton (Edna Tichenor) in tow. Facing a shortage of cash, she retreats to Hang Chow, a small village near the poppy fields, to intercept a smuggling job organized by her rival-turned-colleague Jules Repin (Wallace Beery). But Cassie is soon sidetracked by sussing out whether Captain Arthur Jarvis (Matt Moore), working to revive a decommissioned mine, is, in fact, a government plant with a mandate to disrupt the town’s black market activities. (Note courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center) DIR/SCR Tod Browning; SCR A.P. Younger, from the play by John Colton and Daisy H. Andrews; PROD Carl Laemmle. U.S., 1923, b&w, 70 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
