Film · 1918

The Forbidden City

Name: The Forbidden City
Director: Sidney Franklin
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1918-10-06
Rating: 5.7

63 min · Directed by Sidney Franklin

Romance Drama

5.79
ratings

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.

Cast

Norma Talmadge

San San / Toy

Thomas Meighan

John Worden

E. Alyn Warren

Wong Li

M

Michael Rayle

Mandarin

L. Rogers Lytton

Chinese Emperor

R

Reid Hamilton

Lieutenant Philip Halbert

Charles Fang

Yuan-Loo

Crew

Director: Sidney Franklin
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck
Writer: Mary Murillo, George Scarborough
Cinematography: H. Lyman Broening, Edward Wynard

Details

Studios: Norma Talmadge Film Corporation
Countries: United States of America
Languages: No Language
Release: October 6, 1918

Themes

silent film

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