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White Tiger

192386 minUnited States
DramaCrime

Synopsis

Two siblings separated by a criminal betrayal unknowingly join the same gang years later. A fraudulent chess-playing machine gives the thieves access to wealthy households, while hidden family ties threaten their alliance.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
77:21
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Tod Browning · Public domain

This copy runs shorter than the reference runtime. Editing and playback speed can differ between editions.

Cast

DirectorsTod Browning

Historical context

Tod Browning's interest in stage illusion shapes the robbery scheme. The automaton belongs to a tradition of mechanical marvels whose apparent intelligence concealed a human operator.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • 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

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