Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Directors

Jack Conway

Cast

Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Franklin, Ernest Cossart, Mary Zimbalist

The story

While visiting French Indochina with his girlfriend Dolly Harrison and her family on her father's yacht, freeloading American playboy Bill Carey falls in love with Manon DeVargnes, a beautiful, local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon. Manon is also being romantically pursued by powerful local businessman Pierre Delaroch, also of biracial background, and is also supposed to marry a local king. However, Manon, who does not love either man, desires a passport so that she may go to Paris, to be free and have equal rights with white French citizens, which she lacks in Saigon.

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