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The Toll of the Sea
Directed by
Chester M. Franklin
Not Rated
1922
54m
Drama
,
Family
,
and more
6.6
89%
53%
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While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
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Cast of The Toll of the Sea
Beatrice Bentley
Barbara 'Elsie' Carver
Kenneth Harlan
Allen Carver
Anna May Wong
Lotus Flower
Priscilla Moran
Little Allen
Etta Lee
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Ming Young
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Chester M. Franklin
Director
Frances Marion
Writer
Herbert T. Kalmus
Producer
The Toll of the Sea Ratings & Reviews
Exhibitor's Trade Review
George T. Pardy
It is a real achievement in the cinema art and a picture that will be long remembered and talked of.
New York Tribune
Harriette Underhill
In color and in production it is one of the loveliest, daintiest pieces of art work that you could find.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
Miss Wong, I may say, is a remarkable pantomimist... with a quality of quiet sadness which is reminiscent of Lillian Gish.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Taylor
Taken all In all, Toll of the Sea is something more than a novelty; it has the usual interest and entertainment values, with just a little more than the usual warmth of the general run of pictures.
Moving Picture World
C.S. Sewell
Anna May Wong... gives a fine performance, bringing out the emotional points with delicacy and much feeling and holding your sympathy throughout.
New York Post
New York Post Staff
It is the first color picture made which has really intensified the third dimension, giving curves to the face and depth to the eye.
The Film Daily
Film Daily Staff
While the coloring in this is still somewhat removed from perfection, it is the closest approach to the natural that any of the experimenters have obtained. The tones are clear, unconfused and the colors do not jump.
Variety
Sime Silverman
Nothing in a moving picture story can rise superior to the story. Coloring never will, never has, and doesn't here.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
The picture is really an exquisite thing. Anna May Wong is one of the most finished actresses ever seen on the screen. Kenneth Harlan has a difficult role, but acquits himself well and the others in the cast all are splendid. You will adore Baby Marian.
San Francisco Examiner
SF Examiner Staff
The Toll of the Sea [is] a distinct achievement in the realm of motion pictures. The screen story is dramatically distinguished by the surprising artistry exhibited by Anna May Wong... a new and unheralded personality among screen players.
Washington Star
Star Staff
Many of the vistas are so artistic that for a moment the spectator might think he was looking at a rare water color from the hand of a master, until a wind-tossed pine branch or rippling wave remind him that this is even more wonderful.
Kansas City Star
KC Star Staff
The coloring of the faces of the players and even of every thread of the wonderful Chinese costumes is so realistic that one forgets at times that it is a picture and that the players aren't really there in actual flesh and blood.
New York Daily News
P.W. Gallico
Originality in The Toll of the Sea stops short with the Technicolor process. The picture is an interesting experiment, but a poor photoplay... [Anna May Wong] far outshone the other characters in the picture.
Arizona Republic
Republic Staff
It surely is a treat to see such a remarkable story done in such a novel and entertaining way.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Exotic Asian melodrama.
New York Times
NYT Staff
Miss Wong stirs in the spectator all the sympathy her part calls for, and she never repels one by an excess of theatrical "feeling." She has a difficult role, a role that is botched nine times out of ten, but hers is the tenth performance.
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