Where East Is East

"Where thrills are thrills! Where Chaney is Chaney at his superb best!"

May 4 1929 Passed 1h 5m
Drama, Romance

A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).

Plot

'Tiger' Haynes is a respected trapper of jungle beasts for zoos and circuses and a doting father to his beautiful young daughter Toyo. When he finds out that she's fallen in love with Bobby Bailey, the son of a wealthy circus owner he frequently deals with, Haynes is initially suspicious of the young man's motives. However, Bailey's sincerity soon wins him over, and they take the river boat to Saigon together to see the young man's father. While on board Bobby meets the femme fatale cougar, Mme. de Sylva, who immediately desires the young man and easily seduces him. In reality, she is Toyo's mother and a notoriously predatory seductress. Tiger adamantly insinuates himself between de Sylva and her latest conquest and seemingly breaks up the romance and returns home to oversee Toyo and Bobby's wedding, but Toyo's mother unexpectedly arrives with the objective of vamping Bobby. In order to avoid having Toyo's heart broken by her mother, Tiger resorts to the 'law of the jungle.'

Written by

Tod Browning, Harry Sinclair Drago, Waldemar Young

Directed by

Tod Browning

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

No Language

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
763
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA