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Son of the Gods is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Lloyd released in USA on 9 march 1930 with Richard Barthelmess

Son of the Gods (1930)

Son of the Gods
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Released in USA 9 march 1930
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating57% 2.858262.858262.858262.858262.85826

Son of the Gods is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Rex Beach. Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett star as a couple in love who have a falling-out when she discovers that, though he looks Caucasian, he is actually Chinese.

Synopsis

Sam Lee (Barthelmess) is the son of a Chinese merchant, Lee Ying, in San Francisco's Chinatown. He is tolerated in white dominated social circles because of his wealth. One day, he leaves college after being insulted by three racist white girls who thought they were too good to be seen going out with a "dirty yellow Chinaman". He takes a tour around the world and ends up in the Riviera where he is introduced to Allana Wagner (Bennett).

Actors

Richard Barthelmess

(Sam Lee)Anders Randolf

(Mr. Wagner)Constance Bennett

(Allana Wagner)Frank Albertson

(Kicker)E. Alyn Warren

(Lee Ying)
And :
Claude King
Geneva Mitchell
Dickie Moore
Robert Homans
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