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The Tong Man is a 1919 American thriller film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation. [1] [2] The Tong Man survives and is available on home video. [3] The film has long been preserved by the Library of Congress. [4]
- The Dragon’s Daughter, by Clyde Westover
- Haworth Pictures Corporation
- George W. Stout
- Sessue Hayakawa
The Tong Man: Directed by William Worthington. With Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc B. Robbins, Toyo Fujita. An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
- (95)
- Crime, Drama
- William Worthington
- 1919-12-14
Jul 20, 2014 · The Tong Man takes the exact opposite approach. It is a lurid, violent crime tale set in the heart of Chinatown. Hatchet men use guns too. Luk Chen (Sessue Hayakawa) is the hatchet man for a local Tong family. “Hatchet man” is literal. He kills people with a hatchet. It was an actual thing. Anyway, he works for Ming Tai (Marc Roberts), a ...
Luk Chan, called the "hatchet man" for his lethal abilities with a hatchet, is in love with Sen Chee, the daughter of Louie Toy, a San Francisco merchant who has become wealthy from a traffic in opium. Ming Tai, who rules the powerful Chinatown secret society Bo Sing Tong, desires Sen Chee. When Louie Toy refuses to pay protection money to the ...
- William Worthington
- Sessue Hayakawa
The Tong-Man Japan-born silent screen idol Sessue Hayakawa produced and starred as the titular Tong-Man. Ostensibly a love story set in San Francisco Chinatown, the film’s infusion of lurid hatchet murders and opium tong wars sparked the first legal action known to be filed by the Chinese American community against Hollywood’s depiction of ...
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The Tong Man is a 1919 American thriller film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation. The Tong Man is a 1919 American thriller ...
