Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Lloyd Corrigan

Writers:

Lloyd Corrigan (adaptation) and
Monte M. Katterjohn (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

5 September 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr...

Plot Keywords:

Fu Manchu | Fight | Father Daughter Relationship | Knife | Poison

Cast

Anna May Wong	...	Ling Moy
Warner Oland	...	Fu Manchu
Sessue Hayakawa	...	Ah Kee
Bramwell Fletcher	...	Ronald Petrie
Frances Dade	...	Joan Marshall
Holmes Herbert	...	Sir John Petrie
Lawrence Grant	...	Sir Basil Courtney
Harold Minjir	...	Rogers
Nicholas Soussanin	...	Morloff
E. Alyn Warren	...	Lu Chung

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)

Early talkie, primitive but sometimes effective.

Early talkie bears no resemblance to the book on which it is supposedly based. Wong is lovely, rest of cast wooden in tale of Fu Manchu's daughter carrying out her father's vengeance. Early Hayakawa is interesting. Several scenes, especially last ten minutes, still pack a punch, such as Hayakawa's sacrificing himself to warn others. Oland, as Fu, shows opposite of later casting as Charlie Chan.