Son of the Gods

Son of the Gods is a 1930 American PreCode romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Rex Beach. Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett star as a couple in love who have a fallingout when she discovers that, though he looks Caucasian, he is actually Chinese.

Allana falls madly in love with Sam and refuses to her anything about his background. Sam is afraid to pursue a relationship with her until she tells him that she used to date a man from India and that she is open to interracial relationships. Sam then becomes Allanas boyfriend and everything goes well for a while. One day, however, Allana discovers that Sam is Chinese and she flies into a rage and lashes him in public with her riding crop.Heartbroken, Sam now returns home, only to find that his father is on his deathbed. Sam now discovers that his parents were both white and that he had been orphaned as a child. Allana, unable to quench her love for Sam, returns to the United States in order to find him. She declares her love for Sam before he has a chance to tell her that he is indeed white. The film ends with the lovers happily reunited. ........

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