Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 275: Sat Oct 4

Daughter of the Dragon (Corrigan, 1931): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.20pm


This 35mm screening (also being shown on September 13th) is part of the Anna May Wong season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

BFI introduction:
A rare collaboration between Anna May Wong and silent-era matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa, Daughter of the Dragon is an intriguing cross between the popular Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan film series. Paramount exploited Wong’s fame in Europe, making her newly acquired British accent a selling point in this early sound horror, which was released in the same year as Dracula and Frankenstein.

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