The Toll of the Sea

Chester M. Franklin, 1922-23, released by Metro. Anna May Wong, seventeen, is Lotus Flower, who saves an American, Allen Carver, and waits for him to come back from the States. Frances Marion wrote a Madame Butterfly moved to China. Shot entirely in two-color Technicolor, the first feature in Technicolor's subtractive two-color process (The Gulf Between, 1917, had used the additive one); Joseph M. Schenck and the Technicolor company used it as a demonstration. About fifty-four minutes. Wong carries a lead Hollywood would not give her again for years. The color is candy. The contract is the plot.