Based on the novel by the same title by Alice Tisdale Hobart who had married an executive of the Standard Oil Company in China. The book was published in 1933 - the year after Japan had conquered Manchuria. The story takes place from the early 1900s roughly through the Nationalist Chinse Revolution of 1923-27.
Suey Long Wong took two weeks off from his day job as Laird Doyle's live-in cook to appear in this film.
Bess Flowers, Samuel S. Hinds and Cyril Ring are listed as cast members in the AFI Catalog but are not seen here.
In the novel upon which this film is based, the oil industry was depicted as far more impersonal and harsh in the way it treated its employees.
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Bellingham WA Friday 23 November 1956 on KVOS (Channel 12); it first aired in Phoenix Thursday 13 December 1956 on KVAR (Channel 12), in Sacramento CA Sunday 16 December 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3), in Miami Thursday 20 December 1956 on WTVJ (Channel 4), in San Francisco Tuesday 25 December 1956 on KRON (Channel 4), in Indianapolis IN Wednesday 26 December 1956 on WTTV (Channel 10), and in Spokane Saturday 12 January 1957 on KREM Channel 2).
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What is the English language plot outline for Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)?
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