The Forbidden City

5.7(9)19181h 3m

RomanceDrama

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.

Director

Sidney Franklin

Cast

Norma Talmadge

San San / Toy

Thomas Meighan

John Worden

E. Alyn Warren

Wong Li

Michael Rayle

Mandarin

L. Rogers Lytton

Chinese Emperor

Reid Hamilton

Lieutenant Philip Halbert

Charles Fang

Yuan-Loo

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

5.0

The characterisations here are a bit of a stretch, to be honest. Norma Talmadge is "San San" who is to be a concubine of the Emperor (of China) but who becomes embroiled, and falls in love, with the American Ambassador to the court - "Worden" (Thomas Meighan) with whom she has a child. Needless to say, the Emperor is not best pleased and "San San" is dealt with and the baby "Toy" put out for adopt...