The Crimson City

The Crimson City (1928) is an American synchronized sound drama film produced by Warner Bros. written by Anthony Coldeway and directed by Archie Mayo. Actors include Myrna Loy, Anna May Wong, Sōjin Kamiyama, John Miljan, Leila Hyams and Richard Tucker. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. The film was released by Warner Brothers Pictures on April 7, 1928.

Plot
The story centers on an Asian woman named Onoto (Loy), who is rescued from slavery by a fugitive of European ancestry named Gregory Kent (Miljan). They fall in love, but prevailing mores about race doom the romance. Onoto leaves Kent so that he may marry another (Hyams).

Cast

 * Myrna Loy as Onoto
 * John Miljan as Gregory Kent
 * Leila Hyams as Nadine Howells
 * Matthew Betz as "Dagger Foo"
 * Anders Randolf as Major Howells
 * Sōjin Kamiyama as Sin Yoy
 * Anna May Wong as Su
 * Richard Tucker as Richard Brand

Preservation status
The only known surviving copy is kept at the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A trailer for this film survives among the holdings of the Library of Congress.