Titles Comprise: Java Head: The port city of Bristol England in the 1800s is home to Java Head a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One a handsome seafarer is in love with a local girl but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage he returns with a very exotic noble Chinese wife which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son a landlubber seeks to convert to steamships to the disgust of his father. Even worse he is secretly dealing in contraband. Tiger Bay: A young Englishman abroad Michael visits... the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister. But Olaf's gang have only just started their campaign against Lui Chang the cultured elegant woman who owns the premises... and she is determined not to be intimidated or driven out of business under any circumstances... [show more]
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Double bill of dramas starring the first Chinese-American movie star, Anna May Wong. In 'Java Head' (1934), noble Chinese girl Tapu Xuen (Wong) marries the wealthy son of an English ship owner, and faces local contempt when she returns with her husband to Bristol. In 'Tiger Bay' (1934), young Englishman Michael (Victor Garland) falls for the foster-sister of a Chinese nightclub owner. Unfortunately the owner, Lui Chang (Wong), is the target of a gang of protection racketeers determined to bleed her dry.
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