An American girl who helps operate a Shanghai opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
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The people behind it
Priscilla Dean
Cassie Cook / Lucille Preston
Matt Moore
Capt. Arthur Davis
Rose Dione
Madame Polly Voo
Wallace Beery
Jules Repin
J. Farrell MacDonald
Murphy
Edna Tichenor
Molly Norton
Anna May Wong
Rose Li
William V. Mong
Dr. Li
Bruce Guerin
Billy Hepburn
Marie De Albert
Mrs. Hepburn
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