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Broken Fetters
Also known as [A Human Pawn]
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Rex Ingram

Cast: Violet Mersereau [Mignon], Charles H. France [Kong Hee], Earl Simmons [Bruce King], Frank Smith [Foo Shai], William Dyer [the captain], Paul Panzer [Carleton Demarest], Isabel Patterson [Mrs. Demarest], William Garwood [Lawrence Demarest], Paddy Sullivan [Mike], Guy Morville [the detective], Charles Fang [Chang], Charles Tang [Hop Sing Toi], Kittens Reichert [Mignon, as a child], Thomas Hart Benton [a bar patron], [?] Rex Ingram?

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Rex Ingram. Cinematography by Stanley Sinclair. / Released 3 July 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Yellow and White.

Drama: Asian.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 September 2018.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 22 : Website-IMDb.

 
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