The Vermilion Pencil (1922)
50m
Running Time
March 19, 1922Release Date
The Vermilion Pencil (1922)
50m
Running Time
March 19, 1922Release Date
Plot.
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.
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Cast & Crew.
Sessue Hayakawa
Tse Chan / The Unknown / Li Chan
Ann May
His Wife
Misao Seki
Pai Wang
Bessie Love
Hyacinth
Sidney Franklin
Fu Wong
Thomas Jefferson
Ho Ling
Tote Du Crow
The Jackal
Sidney Franklin
Fu Wong
Omar Whitehead
Ma Shue
Edwin Warren Juyol
Writer
Alice Catlin
Writer
Joseph A. Du Bray
Cinematography
Norman Dawn
Director
Details.
This Movie Is About.
based on novel or book
lost film
Wiki.
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.After completing this film, Hayakawa learned that members of the studio who made the film were active in the anti-Japanese movement, and he left Hollywood for over a decade.