The Toll of the Sea (1922) / Shifting Sand (1918) (Silent) (MOD) (DVD Movie) Old Acquaintance Acclaimed director Oscar Boetticher

Acclaimed director Oscar Boetticher

a relationship drama and the story of a small town

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directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun

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The Toll of the Sea (1922) / Shifting Sand (1918) (Silent) (MOD) (DVD Movie) Old Acquaintance Acclaimed director Oscar BoetticherThe Toll of the Sea (1922, Color, Silent): Chinese maiden Lotus Flower (Anna May Wong) rescues shipwrecked Allen Carver when he washes ashore more dead than alive. Although reminded of the old proverb that the sea extracts twice the pain as whatever amount of joy it provides, she falls in love with the handsome American and eventually marries him. Allen, longing for his own kind, eventually abandons Lotus Flower and returns to the States unaware that