Chinatown Nights (1929)

4.4/10 83 min Drama Action Crime

Overview

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he is in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.

Cast

Wallace Beery

Chuck Riley

Florence Vidor

Joan Fry

Warner Oland

"Boston Charley" Wu

Jack Oakie

James "Jimmy" Williams, the reporter

Richard Cramer

Delaney, the bartender who throws Joan into street

Bess Flowers

Woman on Stairway

Willie Fung

One of Riley's Henchmen

Tetsu Komai

Woo Chung, Riley's principal henchman

Tom London

Cop

Pete Morrison

Pete, bartender-henchman

Broderick O'Farrell

Ambulance Doctor

Freeman Wood

Gerald, the drunk

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