The mid thirties was a period when dramas based on nineteenth Can try novels were very popular.
Basil Dean was head of production at Ealing Studios,and very much favoured this type of drama. Java Head in itself is rather a routine drama. What makes it memorable is the presence of the marvellous Anna May Wong.
In America due to the abominable racism then prevalent in America she would not have been able to take this role as the American code forbade interracial sex N There's a goOd cast including Ralph Richardson,that perennial favourite Edmund Gwenn,and wooden as ever,John Loder. So well worth watching.
Basil Dean was head of production at Ealing Studios,and very much favoured this type of drama. Java Head in itself is rather a routine drama. What makes it memorable is the presence of the marvellous Anna May Wong.
In America due to the abominable racism then prevalent in America she would not have been able to take this role as the American code forbade interracial sex N There's a goOd cast including Ralph Richardson,that perennial favourite Edmund Gwenn,and wooden as ever,John Loder. So well worth watching.