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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)

Walk Like a Dragon (1960)

Western

THIS IS HOW THEY FIRST SAW HER...in the notorious Slave-Market of San Francisco's Chinatown!

Release Date: 1960, June 1
Directors: James Clavell
Countries: United States of America
Production: James Clavell Productions, James Clavell Productions
Cast: James Shigeta, Lilyan Chauvin, Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, Charles Irwin, Tom Kennedy, Josephine Hutchinson, Allen Jaffe, Rodolfo Acosta, Mel Tormé, Natalie Trundy, Don 'Red' Barry

Overview:

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.

Keywords:

jalousie mariage mixte