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Chinatown Charlie, the 1928 Charles Hines opium drugs Chinese Tong crime melodrama ("See the Bowery, Famous Wax Works, Bowery Mission, Port Shanghai Restaurant, Joss House, Opium Dens, and have chop suey with Chinatown Charlie"; "Adapted from the melo-comic extravaganza by Owen Davis"; about an American man who runs a tour guide bus to Chinatown, and a pretty female passenger is chased by Tong gang members because they think she has a magic ring, and he goes into the dark recesses of Chinatown to try to rescue her) starring Johnny Hines (in the title role as Charlie), Louise Lorraine, Harry Gribbon, Fred Kohler, Sojin Kamiyama, Scooter Lowry, and Anna May Wong. Note that Anna May Wong made lots of movies from 1923 to 1928 where she either was uncredited or had credit like she did in this movie (as the "Mandarin's Sweetheart"). That was partly because she was one of the only actual Asian women working in Hollywood. She persevered, and by the early 1930s, was getting more significant roles, but Hollywood would not cast her as the romantic lead, even in movies about interracial romances, so she often played the second female lead, with the lead being played by a white woman in yellowface makeup. Also note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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