Drifting

Tod Browning, Universal, 1923, from the Colton and Andrews play. Priscilla Dean is Cassie Cook, an American running opium in China under the eye of Captain Jarvis (Matt Moore), who is not the mining engineer he claims. Wallace Beery is her partner Jules Repin. Anna May Wong is Rose Li, the doctor’s daughter. Screenland complained the play’s Cassie had been cleaned into a virgin who still moves the drug; the titles barely say opium. A week of locations in Truckee. Wong is already the face the camera finds when Dean is busy.