The Toll of the Sea

United States of America, 1923

Film

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While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship. The plot is a variation of the Madame Butterfly story, set in China instead of Japan. The Toll of the Sea was one of the first and most successful Technicolor feature films.

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Credits

director

Chester M. Franklin

editor

Hal C. Kern

producer

Herbert T. Kalmus

production company

Metro Pictures Corporation

Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation

story

Frances Marion

writer

Frances Marion

Duration

56:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
1923

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-75804

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

Romance

TMDB-Movie

75804

Wikidata

Q2411291

Collected

28 times

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