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Drifting is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 26 august 1923 with Priscilla Dean

Drifting (1923)

Drifting
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Released in USA 26 august 1923
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.273793.273793.273793.273793.27379

Drifting is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the play Drifting, by John Colton and Daisy H. Andrews. The film was directed by Tod Browning and features Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery and Anna May Wong. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Copies of the film exist in Moscow and in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. In 2012 the National Film Preservation Foundation awarded a grant to preserve a print that has Czech language intertitles which were translated back into English.

Synopsis

Cassie Cook had played the opium selling game until fate and a bad shuffle compelled her to team up with her biggest rival, Jules Repin, and then the horror of the whole thing weighed down upon her and she determined to quit and leave China before it was too late. She had bought a lot of new gowns on credit, believing in Repin's promise that he had a big shipment of opium coming in which would give them both plenty of money. Now those gowns had to be paid for and Cassie's chum, Molly Morton, taken out of the country before a growing taste for opium got a final hold on her.
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Actors

Priscilla Dean

(Cassie Cook / Lucille Preston)
Matt Moore

(Capt. Arthur Davis)
Wallace Beery

(Jules Repin)
J. Farrell MacDonald

(Murphy)
Rose Dione

(Madame Polly Voo)
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