Son of the Gods
About Son of the Gods
Sam, the son of a wealthy Chinese businessman, looks white and lives apart from his widowed father, passing as white. He falls for a socialite. When she learns he is Chinese, she drops him, and the insults follow.
Cast & crew
More about Son of the Gods
Frank Lloyd directed and produced it. Bradley King adapted Rex Beach's novel. Ernest Haller photographed it, with Technicolor sequences. First National, a Warner subsidiary, released it in 1930. It runs 93 minutes. Richard Barthelmess plays Sam. Constance Bennett plays the socialite. Anders Randolf, E. Alyn Warren, Claude King, and Frank Albertson are billed.
Themes
Look
Ernest Haller photographed the picture, including Technicolor sequences.
Notes
- Barthelmess plays the son who is passing as white. Bennett plays the woman who leaves him.
- The source is Rex Beach's novel of the same name.
- Some sequences are in Technicolor.
Scenes
- She learns he is Chinese and breaks with him.
Influenced by
- Son of the Gods
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Son of the Gods (1930).webm)
