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Drifting (1923)

Drifting (1923)

Drama
Release Date: 1923, August 26
Directors: Tod Browning
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures
Cast: J. Farrell MacDonald, Frank Lanning, Rose Dione, Matt Moore, Anna May Wong, Wallace Beery, Edna Tichenor, Willie Fung, William V. Mong, William F. Moran, Priscilla Dean, Bynunsky Hyman

Overview:

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.

Keywords:

stereotype based on play or musical unrequited love chinese opium revolt drug smuggling shanghai, china government agent yellowface peasants drug ring american in china poppies opium wars