Mr. Wu


Mr. Wu is a 1927 silent movie starring Lon Chaney as a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong.

As Mr. Wus daughter, Nang Ping, emerges into womanhood, he arranges a marriage for her with a mandarin. A lively, spirited girl, she has been educated by her fathers old tutor. Despite the seclusion of her fathers palace, she meets and falls in love with Basil Gregory, a young Englishman. His father is a diplomat who does not respect Chinese ways and insults the damned Chinks to their faces, although the rest of his family is courteous.Basil later informs Nang Ping that he must return to Britain with his family, but she surprises him with the revelation that she carries his child. Later, Basil indicates he indeed wants to marry her, but she then claims she was merely trying to establish if he was an honorable man, and reveals she is already engaged in an arranged marriage. Via a nosy gardener, Nang Pings father discovers the relationship. ........

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