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The Vermilion Pencil

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Genres
  
Drama, Silent film

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Norman Dawn

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

The Vermilion Pencil Wikipedia

Release date
  
March 19, 1922 (1922-03-19)

Based on
  
The Vermilion Pencil  by Homer Lea

Writer
  
Alice Catlin, Edwin Warren Juyol, Homer Lea (story)

Produced by
  
Film Booking Offices of America

Cast
  
Bessie Love
,
Sessue Hayakawa
,
Ann May

Related Norman Dawn movies
  
Showgirl’s Luck (1930), Arctic Fury (1949), Two Lost Worlds (1950)

The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 silent film produced and distributed by Robertson-Cole, later a part of Film Booking Offices of America. It is based on a 1908 novel by Homer Lea called The Vermilion Pencil. The film starred Sessue Hayakawa, Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin. It is now a lost film.

Cast

  • Sessue Hayakawa as Tse Chan/The Unknown/Li Chan
  • Ann May as His Wife
  • Misao Seki as Pai Wang
  • Bessie Love as Hyacinth
  • Sidney Franklin as Fu Wong
  • Thomas Jefferson as Ho Ling
  • Tote Du Crow as The Jackal
  • Omar Whitehead as Ma Shue
  • References

    The Vermilion Pencil Wikipedia
    The Vermilion Pencil IMDb