Probably the last of the yellowface movies meant to be taken seriously: All the important Chinese parts are played by white actors except the little half-Chinese girl. A generation earlier, she would have probably been played by Shirley Temple--who did play a Chinese girl in one of her movies. If you can get past this, it's a pretty darned good adventure film, and it pays at least token reference that the Chinese had legitimate reasons to hate the foreign devils.
Probably the last of the yellowface movies meant to be taken seriously: All the important Chinese parts are played by white actors except the little half-Chinese girl. A generation earlier, she would have probably been played by Shirley Temple--who did play a Chinese girl in one of her movies. If you can get past this, it's a pretty darned good adventure film, and it pays at least token reference that the Chinese had legitimate reasons to hate the foreign devils.
oldgringo2001 2 months ago