Priscilla Dean
Cassie Cook/Lucille Preston
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Synopsis
An opium dealer in Shanghai wants to leave the trade but needs money to escape and help an ailing friend. Following an expected shipment inland, she meets a man posing as a mining engineer while investigating the drug network. Their attraction develops across concealed identities, forcing her to choose between the business keeping her afloat and a possible different life.
Cast
DirectorsTod Browning
Inspirations
Tod Browning adapted the Broadway play by John Colton and Daisy H. Andrews. Priscilla Dean leads a cast that includes Wallace Beery and Anna May Wong, with the film's Chinese setting filtered through the assumptions of a Hollywood crime melodrama.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Priscilla Dean — This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.35305 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
- Matt Moore — Unknown author · Public domain
- Wallace Beery — MGM studio photographer · Public domain
- J. Farrell MacDonald — film screenshot · Public domain
