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	Sessue Hayakawa (center) and John Gilbert (right). Frame enlargement: courtesy Eye Film Instituut Nederland.

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [Doctor Chindi Ashutor], Helen Jerome Eddy [Kate Erskine], Pauline Curley [Mary Erskine], Jack Gilbert (John Gilbert) [James Bassett], Fountain La Rue [Countess Petite Florence], Wedgewood Nowell [François]

The Haworth Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Robertson-Cole Company through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by L.V. Jefferson, from the novel Only a Nigger by Edmund Mitchell. Technical direction by Frank D. Ormstrom. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © 10 June 1919 by The Haworth Pictures Corporation [LU13807]. Released 6 July 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2748.

Survival status: Incomplete prints exist in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive [35mm nitrate positive (Dutch-language intertitles), 35mm preservation negative and 35mm preservation positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2748 : ClasIm-223 pp. 20, 22; FilmmuseumNews-1 : with additional information provided by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.