The Forbidden City

5.719181h 3mReleased

Romance

Drama

Overview

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.

StatusReleased

Release Date1918-10-06

Runtime1h 3m

LanguagesNo Language

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

silent film

Cast & Crew

Norma Talmadge

as San San / Toy

Thomas Meighan

as John Worden

E. Alyn Warren

as Wong Li

Michael Rayle

as Mandarin

L. Rogers Lytton

as Chinese Emperor

Reid Hamilton

as Lieutenant Philip Halbert

Charles Fang

as Yuan-Loo

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jun 6, 2022

5/10

The characterisations here are a bit of a stretch, to be honest. Norma Talmadge is "San San" who is to be a concubine of the Emperor (of China) but who becomes embroiled, and falls in love, with the American Ambassador to the court - "Worden" (Thomas Meighan) with whom she has a child. Needless to say, the Emperor is not best pleased and "San San" …

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