Li Ting Lang
{{short description|1920 film by Charles Swickard}}
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{{infobox film
| name = Li Ting Lang
| image = Sessue Hayakawa in Li Ting Lang by Charles Swickard Film Daily 1920.png
| caption = Ad published in Film Daily
| director = Charles Swickard
| producer = Haworth Pictures Corporation
| writer = E. Richard Schayer (story & scenario)
| starring = Sessue Hayakawa
Doris Pawn
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| released = {{Film date|1920}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent. English titles
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Li Ting Lang is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Charles Swickard and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation.{{cite book|last=Gevinson|first=Alan|title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA589|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20964-0|page=589}}{{cite news|title=Li Ting Lang at West's|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55151261|accessdate=March 17, 2015|date=February 4, 1921}} The film was based on the short story Li Ting Lang, Chinese Gentleman, by Howard P. Rockey, which was published in the December 1916 issue of The Green Book Magazine.
Plot
Li Ting Lang is a Chinese prince studying at an American university. His classmates called him "Old Ting-a-Ling" and don't know that he is royalty. Li falls in love with wealthy Marion Halstead, who had been dating one of his college friends.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/580263559/?terms=%22Green%20Book%20magazine%22&match=1 Virile Film Based On Renunciation, The Tucson Citizen, November 15, 1920, page 6]
LI and Marion announce their engagement, but Marion is socially ostracized, so Li releases her from her promise to him. He then considers suicide. An emissary comes to America with instructions to force Li to return to China, so he drugs the prince, and Li wakes up on a ship bound for his homeland. His college friends believe the missing student killed himself. Years later Marion marries the other man who had been courting her.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/541484416/?terms=%22Li%20Ting%20Lang%22&match=1 American Patrons Are Entertained By "Li Ting Lang", The Salt Lake Tribune, July 19, 1920, page 5]
During the Chinese revolution Li Tang Lang becomes a general of the revolutionary army. Marion goes to China on her honeymoon, sees and recognizes Li. She goes to his home, but is followed by men who plan to murder her and blame her death on the general. Li Ting Lang defends Marion, and she leaves China with her husband.
Cast
- Sessue Hayakawa as Li Ting Lang
- Allan Forrest as Rob Murray
- Charles Mason as Red Dalton (credited as Charles E. Mason)
- Doris Pawn as Marion Halstead
- Frances Raymond as Priscilla Mayhew
- Marc Robbins as Prince Nu Chang
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Li Ting Lang}}
- {{IMDb title|0195878}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=InvNAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Li+Ting+Lang%22&pg=PA1143 Story film is based on – Li Ting Lang, Chinese Gentleman, The Green Book Magazine, December 1916]
{{Charles Swickard}}
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Haworth Pictures Corporation films
Category:Films directed by Charles Swickard
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer