Grain de son

Original title: Dinty

1920
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1h 4m

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Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.

Directors
- John McDermott
- Marshall Neilan
Writers
- Marion Fairfax
- Marshall Neilan
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Directors
- John McDermott
- Marshall Neilan
Writers
- Marion Fairfax
- Marshall Neilan
Stars

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Colleen Moore and Anna May Wong

Episodic comedy/drama stars Wesley Barry as the orphaned Dinty O'Sullivan, a boy of the San Francisco streets who gets involved with a drug smuggler and a kidnapping and becomes a hero.

After his mother (Colleen Moore) dies, Dinty must fend for himself but gets on the wrong side of some street toughs and eventually becomes embroiled in the business of a notorious Chinese gangster (Noah Beery) who casts aside his Chinese lover (Anna May Wong) for a white woman. To get even with a local judge, Beery kidnaps his daughter (Marjorie Daw) and subjects her to torture. But Dinty knows a thing or two.

Several elements will strike modern audiences as being racist, but the film is certainly a capsule of the 1920 mindset. No American film elements are known to survive, but a Dutch print was found and is in quite good shape. Most interesting for Colleen Moore's pre-flapper role and for a chance to see Anna May Wong early in her career.

Pat O'Marry, Kate Price, and J. Barney Sherry co-star.

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The mansion shown in the street view at 00:53:10 with first the pedestrian walking away, then a Ford Model T roadster moving from right to left before it is passed in the opposite direction by a cable car was built by sugar magnate Adolph Spreckels at 2080 Washington Street, San Francisco, in 1912 as a gift to his daughter Alma and is now the home of novelist Danielle Steel.