Hai-Tang

1930 French-language film

  • September 1930 (1930-09)
Running time
80 minutesCountriesGermany
United KingdomLanguageFrench

Hai-Tang, also known as Le Chemin du déshonneur (The Road to Dishonour) is a 1930 British-German drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and Jean Kemm and starring Anna May Wong, Marcel Vibert and Robert Ancelin.[1] It was made at Elstree Studios.

Multiple-language versions

Like many other films of the early talkie era before dubbing became more widespread, the film was shot in multiple-language versions, each with a different cast. Three versions of the film were made so they could be screened throughout Europe and the colonial world, such as in Mozambique, Australia and South Africa.[2] This was Wong's first sound film billed as the star,[3][4][Note 1] and in all three versions she appeared as the female lead.

An English-language version (The Flame of Love/The Road to Dishonour) and a German-language version (Hai-Tang: Der Weg zur Schande) of the film were made with different casts[Note 2] except for Wong, who spoke her part in three different languages. The French-language version was sometimes referred to as L’Amour, maître des choses in French film magazines).[5] Confusingly, all three versions are often referred to simply as Hai-Tang.[6]

Synopsis

In the Russian Empire, a young officer and a powerful Grand Duke both fall in love with a Chinese woman.

Cast

Notes

  1. ^ Wong acted in one of several vignettes in the earlier 1930 musical film review Elstree Calling.
  2. ^ Ley On played Hai-Tang's brother Wang-Hu in all three versions.

References

  1. ^ St. Pierre p.83
  2. ^ Lim 2019, p. 34.
  3. ^ Hodges 2004, p. 88.
  4. ^ Lim 2019, p. 83.
  5. ^ Lim 2019, p. 107.
  6. ^ Chan 2003, p. 217.

Sources

  • Chan, Anthony B. (2003). Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961). Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4789-2.
  • Hodges, Graham Russell Gao (2004). Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (3rd ed.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-64160-883-1.
  • Lim, Shirley Jennifer (2019). Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-1834-0.
  • St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (2010). E.A. Dupont and his Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge, Piccadilly, Atlantic, Two Worlds, Cape Forlorn. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-1611474336.

See also

External links

  • The Flame of Love/The Road to Dishonour at IMDb
  • German version: Der Weg zur Schande at IMDb
  • French version: Le Chemin du déshonneur at IMDb
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