UNITED STATES · 1910

That Chink at Golden Gulch

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood Chinese immigration cultural identity discrimination frontier justice forbidden romance
Synopsis

In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit

Year1910
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
That Chink at Golden Gulch poster

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