The Toll of the Sea
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The second Technicolor film ever, The Toll of the Sea is also the first film that star Anna May Wong had a leading role. The story is a drama-tragedy that displays the horror and cost of racism through the American characters while also showing the humanity of the lead. The film was originally thought to be lost, but was discovered and restored by UCLA in 1985. Sourced from "Gene Smiley" Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EwwFFKO1q0
Why this is free to watch
The Toll of the Sea (1923) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Chester M. Franklin
- Starring
- Beatrice Bentley, Kenneth Harlan, Anna May Wong, Priscilla Moran, Etta Lee, Ming Young
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