A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.
Wilson Benge
- Bathurst's Butler
- (uncredited)
Ivan Christy
- Cafe Manager
- (uncredited)
Wong Chung
- One of Lee Ying's Associates
- (uncredited)
Geraldine Dvorak
- Roulette Player
- (uncredited)
James Eagles
- Spud
- (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
- Indian Woman
- (uncredited)
Robert Homans
- Dugan
- (uncredited)
George Irving
- Attorney
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Mathews
- Alice Hart
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Frank Lloyd(uncredited)
- Writers
- Rex Beach
- Bradley King(screen version)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe 2-strip Technicolor sequence, running 442 feet, i.e. the flashbacks to San Francisco's Chinatown, when Sam was a child, only survives in black and white and has been given a Sepiatone treatment for the Turner Classic Movies presentation.
- GoofsWhen Sam writes his father about being in the South of France, the visual shown next is the Catalina Casino on Catalina Island just off the southern California coast, something very well known to the film industry where this film was made or to anyone from the West Coast.
- Alternate versionsFirst National Pictures, Inc. also released this film as a silent, for which Bradley King also wrote the titles.
- SoundtracksPretty Little You
(1929) (uncredited)
Music by Sol Violinsky
Lyrics by Ben Ryan
Sung by Frank Albertson, James Eagles, Geneva Mitchell and Barbara Leonard
Featured review
The Good China
Wealthy Caucasian-looking Chinese student Richard Barthelmess (as Sam Lee) is accepted by some of his school chums, but many girls shun him when they find out he's really a "Chinaman". Not knowing where he fits in, Mr. Barthelmess drops out of college and sails for Europe. Barthelmess settles in the south of France, assisting English author Claude King (as Mr. Bathurst) with a play he is writing about Chinese culture. Barthelmess is "popular with the ladies," and catches the eye of beautiful blonde Constance Bennett (as Allana Wagner). Perhaps recalling his earlier rejections, Barthelmess does not reveal his Chinese ancestry to Ms. Bennett...
Her father Anders Randolf (as Mr. Wagner) wonders about Barthelmess' background but Bennett doesn't care, or does she...
Bennett's reaction to the news should not to be missed. You should note that the very next scene begins her turnaround, and that she has transferred feelings to her victim. This trading off of prejudice is artful and interesting; and, for the time, this film takes a positive stand regarding miscegenation. That doesn't make it convincing, however. Barthelmess was a top actor, and placed #8 in "Quigley Publications" 1930 annual money-makers list. He has some good scenes, and the production values are high, but his characterization is askew. Barthelmess was getting too old for the college boy roles. And Bennett is saddled with a difficult to redeem scene.
***** Son of the Gods (3/9/30) Frank Lloyd ~ Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Anders Randolf, E. Alyn Warren
Her father Anders Randolf (as Mr. Wagner) wonders about Barthelmess' background but Bennett doesn't care, or does she...
Bennett's reaction to the news should not to be missed. You should note that the very next scene begins her turnaround, and that she has transferred feelings to her victim. This trading off of prejudice is artful and interesting; and, for the time, this film takes a positive stand regarding miscegenation. That doesn't make it convincing, however. Barthelmess was a top actor, and placed #8 in "Quigley Publications" 1930 annual money-makers list. He has some good scenes, and the production values are high, but his characterization is askew. Barthelmess was getting too old for the college boy roles. And Bennett is saddled with a difficult to redeem scene.
***** Son of the Gods (3/9/30) Frank Lloyd ~ Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Anders Randolf, E. Alyn Warren
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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