Chinatown Charlie [fragment] (1928)

This is a fragment from “Chinatown Charlie” (1928), which is believed to be a lost silent film.

Production Company: First National Pictures, Inc.

Director: Charles Hines

Screenwriters: Roland Asher, John Grey, Owen Davis

With: Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, Harry Gribbon, Fred Kohler, Sojin, Scooter Lowry, Anna May Wong, George Kuwa, John Burdette

“Charlie, a Chinatown tour guide, attempts to protect one of his female passengers from a gang intent on stealing her ring, which is reputed to have supernatural powers. He rescues the girl after an escapade at a Mandarin's palace, involving acrobats forming a human chain across the street, two stories above ground.”—AFI Catalog

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