Lon Chaney plays Asian with questionable makeup, but the hypocrisy hits harder than the yellowface.
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
Acting
Chaney's physicality transcends the unfortunate makeup.
Direction
Forman lets hypocrisy marinate in stark seaside compositions.
Director
Tom Forman
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