Movie

Java Head

1923★ 7.0 · 11h 22mDramaRomance

Overview

Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.

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Cast

Raymond Hatton
as Edward Dunsack

Leatrice Joy
as Taou Yuen

Jacqueline Logan
as Nettie Vollar

Rose Tapley
as Rhoda Ammidon

George Fawcett
as Barzil Dunsack

Alan Roscoe
as Gerrit Ammidon (as Albert Roscoe)

Betty Bronson
as Janet Ammidon

George Stevens
as Butler

Arthur Stuart Hull
as William Ammidon

Helen Lindroth
as Kate Vollar

Daniel Pennell
as Broadrick (as Dan Pennell)

Violet Axzelle
as Laurel Ammidon