Old San Francisco / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; by Darryl Francis Zanuck ; directed by Alan Crosland ; screen play by Anthony Coldewey.
Edition:
Full-screen.
Publisher:
Turner Entertainment Co. ;
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Dolores Costello; Warner Oland; Charles Emmett Mack; Josef Swickard; John Miljian; Anders Randolf ; Sojin; Angelo Rossitto; Anna May Wong. Originally released as a motion picture in 1927. "This disc is expected to play back in "play only" devices, and may not play on other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
Summary:
A film about the struggle of the Vasquez family from the city's Spanish settlement that finds itself barely hanging on to their land at the turn of the century. Interwoven in the plot is the ploy of a Chinese man disguised as an Occidental to seduce a daughter of the Spanish aristocracy. Set to a Vitaphone soundtrack with synchronized music and sound effects the action careens from rancho to saloon to secret dungeon with a recreation of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 as the finale.
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