The Forbidden City
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- For the palace complex in Beijing, see Forbidden City
The Forbidden City | |
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Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck |
Written by | Mary Murillo
George Scarborough (story) |
Starring | Norma Talmadge Thomas Meighan |
Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening Edward Wynard |
Release date(s) | 6 October 1918 |
Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film English intertitles |
IMDb profile |
The Forbidden City is a film released in 1918 starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmage) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has fallen pregnant she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair, seeking her father in the Philippines.
[edit] Cast (in credits order)
- Norma Talmadge ... San San/Toy
- Thomas Meighan ... John Worden
- E. Alyn Warren ... Wong Li
- Michael Rayle ... Mandarin
- L. Rogers Lytton ... Chinese Emperor
- Reid Hamilton ... Lieutenant Philip Halbert