The White Man's Law (1918)

Directors

James Young

Cast

Charles West, Clarissa Selwynne, Ernest Joy, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Sessue Hayakawa

The story

As described in a film magazine, Sir Harry Falkland (Holt), having lost the respect of his wife and facing prosecution for forgery, leaves England and goes to Africa as part of an ivory commission. Maida Verne (Vidor), a French-Sudanese maid, captivates his eye, and after he declares his love for her, she is compromised in the eyes of her fiancé John A. Genghis (Hayakawa), the son of a sheik and an Oxford graduate.

Genres

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