Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
Charles Middleton
- John Thorne aka The Dragon
- (as Chas. Middleton)
Will Walling
- Police Captain Walton
- (as William Walling)
Grady Sutton
- Man at Party (silent version)
- (scenes deleted)
Eddy Chandler
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Rae Daggett
- Woman Sitting in Police Station
- (uncredited)
Douglas Haig
- Buddy Lee
- (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy
- SFPD Desk Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Tetsu Komai
- Florist Henchman
- (uncredited)
Wang Lee
- Chinaman with Queue
- (uncredited)
James B. Leong
- Florist Henchman
- (uncredited)
- …
Jim Mason
- Barry Steele
- (uncredited)
- …
Nelson McDowell
- 1st Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Soo Hoo Sun
- Dead Chinese Man
- (uncredited)
James Wang
- Dr. Chang Gow
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBegan shooting as a silent in August, 1928 at Metropolitan Studios, it would become an agonizingly long and complicated production. It was finally released on October 12, 1929 as a talkie after largely being re-shot with another director - Clyde Bruckman as a talkie (marking the first time Lloyd worked from a script) and painstakingly edited down from an original 16-reels (some 2 hours and forty-five minutes) to 12-reels. The silent version cost $521,000 and another $281,000 was spent on the sound negative. While the novelty of hearing Lloyd speak made it his largest grossing hit since The Freshman (1925), those steep production costs resulted in a huge drop in net profits from his earlier features.
- GoofsIn many of the dubbed scenes, the voices are out of synchronization with the actors' lip movements.
- Quotes
Billie Lee: I just put my foot in the wrong place.
Harold Bledsoe: Oh, you did. Well, if you do it again, I'll put my foot in the right place!
- Alternate versionsThere is an all-silent version of this film distributed to unwired cinemas which includes more of the original "silent" version and is adapted with inter-titles for the newer sound sequences.
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)
Featured review
How many bludgeonings can you have in a movie before it ceases to be funny? My five year old and I might disagree on this, but I think that Harold Lloyd crossed that subtle line in this movie. It started off cute and funny, but quickly became sadistic. Compared to Hot Water and Safety Last, this was a poor comedy; however, compared to the Three Stooges or The Ritz Brothers, it wasn't bad.
Maybe hitting several dozen Chinese immigrants in the head with a club was funnier back then...
Maybe hitting several dozen Chinese immigrants in the head with a club was funnier back then...
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- Also known as
- Der Drachentöter
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- Budget
- $979,828 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
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