Year: 1918
Runtime: 63 mins
Director: Sidney Franklin
After a Chinese mandarin condemns his daughter to death for secretly marrying an American, their child is raised within the mandarin’s palace. As an adult, she flees the oppressive household, determined to find her father, who has become a senior official in the Philippines.
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