A Trip to Chinatown
1926 theatrical poster
Directed byRobert P. Kerr
Written byBeatrice Van
Based onA Trip to Chinatown
by Charles Hale Hoyt
Produced byWilliam Fox
StarringMargaret Livingston
Earle Foxe
J. Farrell MacDonald
CinematographyBarney McGill
Distributed byFox Film
Release date
  • June 6, 1926 (1926-06-06)
Running time
60 minutes; 6 reels (5,594 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr.[1][2]

Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor.

Lobby card for the film.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Welland Strong is a young man who is told by his doctor that he has but a short time to live, so he gives away all his effects and goes to San Francisco to visit his rich and lively uncle Benjamin Strong. There he has many adventures which culminate in his agreeing to marry the widow Alicia Cuyer and in his learning that the period of his life is to be greatly extended.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of A Trip to Chinatown located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: A Trip to Chinatown
  2. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: A Trip to Chinatown (1926) at silentera.com
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: A Trip to Chinatown". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co. 24 (7): 67. January 30, 1926. Retrieved March 10, 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: A Trip to Chinatown
  5. ↑ A Trip to Chinatown at Lost Film Files: Lost Fox Film films - 1926 Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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