Sunday Night at The Movies: Toll of the Sea (1922)

Hello all, in case anyone has missed some of these postings, I've just been really busy as of late. Working, being sleep deprived plus dealing with an issue that requires lots of writing, editing, etc., so I just don't have that much time to post nowadays.

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I know it's not Sunday anymore but I will post two movies for the time I missed.

Again this is another silent film and one of the few silent films that are in colour. It is called The Toll of the Sea. It is really based on Madama Butterfly story, though set in China instead of Japan. It starred Anna May Wong. It was the second technicolor film.

The plot is as follows from Wikipedia:

"When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married "Chinese fashion". Carver promises to take her with him when he returns home. Lotus Flower's friends warn her that he will leave without her, and one states she has been forgotten by four American husbands, but she does not believe them. However, Carver's friends discourage him from fulfilling his promise, and he returns to the United States alone.
Lotus Flower has a young son, whom she names Allen after his father. ..."

Then trouble ensues, and I'll leave out the pot spoilers.

If you were not aware the Madama Butterfly on which this was based was a popular story in the West a hundred years a go. Madama Butterfly was "an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa."

It was:

"...based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti.[1][2][3] Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw it in the summer of that year.[4]
The original version of the opera, in two acts, had its premiere on 17 February 1904 at La Scala in Milan. It was poorly received, despite having such notable singers as soprano Rosina Storchio, tenor Giovanni Zenatello and baritone Giuseppe De Luca in lead roles. This was due in part to a late completion by Puccini, which gave inadequate time for rehearsals. Puccini revised the opera, splitting the second act in two, with the Humming Chorus as a bridge to what became Act III, and making other changes. Success ensued, starting with the first performance on 28 May 1904 in Brescia.[5]
Madama Butterfly has become a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, ranked 6th by Operabase; Puccini's La bohèmeand Tosca rank 3rd and 5th."

It was considered lost, then found restored, and the last two reels (which were missing) got re-shot using the original camera. 


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