Old San Francisco

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Audience Member comes off extremely racist Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Spoiler: God caused the Great SF Earthquake to punish a Chinese man "passing" for white in high society. Way to git-r-done, G. Oland plays the baddie in yellow-face, who keeps his "Mongolian" dwarf brother in a cage next to his secret idols. He's also holding a nice Christian girl's fiancee hostage and finally abducts her for life as a sex slave. Luckily, her prayers for vengeance are answered with massive collateral damage. Absurdly racist propaganda that seethes with stereotypes and paranoia. Not content to merely be out of touch with reality, this film reverses any practical notion of history or common sense. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a bad movie. I mean, even aside from the hideously racist interpretations and the overly pro-Christian sentiment...it's a bad movie. Some of the visuals are very nice, though, and Anna May Wong makes the most of a tiny role. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member It's pretty much about how the San Francisco earthquake occurred because a Chinese guy tried to get it on with a nice Catholic girl. Warner Oland plays yet another Chinese stereotype, Costello plays the Catholic girl, and Charles Mack is actually pretty endearing as the Irish hero. In the end, the (admittedly impressive) earthquake kills all the bad guys and spares the good guys. Anna May Wong is in this too, and although the part's small, she still makes an impression. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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