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Where Lights Are Low
Also known as [When Lights Are Low]
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Colin Campbell

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [T’su Wong Shih], Togo Yamamoto [Chang Bong Lo], Goro Kino [Tuang Fang], Gloria Payton [Quan Yin], Kiyosho Satow [Lang See Bow], Misao Seki [Chung Wo Ho Kee], Toyo Fujita [Wung], Jay Eaton [‘Spud’ Malone], Harold Holland [Sergeant McConigle]

Hayakawa Feature Play Company production; distributed by R-C Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Jack Cunningham, from the short story “East is East” by Lloyd Osborne. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © 7 December 1920 by Hayakawa Feature Play Company [LU15855]. Released 4 September 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exists in the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique film archive; and in the Jugoslovenska Kinoteka film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese-Americans - Criminals: Gangsters - Lotteries - Slavery - USA; California: San Francisco (Chinatown)

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: Sweeney-Coming p. 24 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.