Java Head / Tiger Bay (1934)
3.1 of 5 from 10 ratings
2h 25min
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- Synopsis:
Two stunning dramas starring groundbreaking screen icon Anna May Wong.
Java Head
Feature is a tragic melodrama of interracial love. The beautiful Anna May Wong plays a Chinese princess who follows her new husband Gerrit, a young Englishman from a wealthy shipping family, back to 19th Century Bristol. The husband's conservative family is scandalised by the arrival of his bride, whose sensational clothing and make-up stands in stark contrast to the restrained Victorian setting. They refuse to accept the stranger, preferring that Gerrit rekindle his courtship of Nettie, a local girl.
Tiger BayA young Englishman abroad, Michael, visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub, and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister. But Olaf's gang have only just started their campaign against Lui Chang (Anna May Wong), the cultured, elegant woman who owns the premises...and she is determined not to be intimidated or driven out of business under any circumstances... - Actors:
- Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan, John Loder, Edmund Gwenn, Ralph Richardson, Herbert Lomas, George Curzon, Roy Emerton, John Marriner, Grey Blake, Henry Victor, Lawrence Grossmith, Margaret Yarde, René Ray, Victor Garland, Ernest Jay, Wally Patch, B. Graham Soutten, Brian Buchel
- Directors:
- Thorold Dickinson, J. Walter Ruben, J. Elder Wills
- Producers:
- Basil Dean, Ray Wyndham
- Writers:
- Martin Brown, Gordon Wellesley, J. Elder Wills, John Quin, Eric Ansell, Billie Bristow
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
