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Yellow Fingers

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Yellow Fingers
Lobby card
Directed byEmmett J. Flynn
Screenplay byEve Unsell (scenario)
Based onYellow Fingers
by Eve Unsell
StarringOlive Borden
Ralph Ince
Claire Adams
Edward Peil, Sr.
CinematographyPaul Ivano
Ernest Palmer
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 21, 1926 (1926-03-21)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Yellow Fingers ad in Motion Picture News, 1926

Yellow Fingers is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Eve Unsell. The film stars Olive Borden, Ralph Ince, Claire Adams, Edward Peil, Sr., Otto Matieson, and Nigel De Brulier. The film was released on March 21, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[5] Captain Shane, a South Seas trader, known on the island as "Brute" Shane due to the roughhouse methods he uses on his men and native islanders, rears Saina, a half-caste, as if she was a young white woman. Now grown to womanhood, Saina has come to love her guardian. Nona, an English damsel, stows away on Shane's ship to escape Kwong Li, a Chinese man who desires her. When Saina finds that Shane loves Nona and learns the secret circumstances of her birth, she temporarily reverts to native ways, and even performs a native dance in traditional islander clothing with grace and abandon. Saina turns out to be the Rajah's granddaughter and a hereditary queen of the island. Shane sails away with Nona.

Cast

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Preservation

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Yellow Fingers is preserved with a copy located in Europe.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Yellow Fingers (1926) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  2. ^ "Yellow Fingers". afi.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  3. ^ Hal Erickson (2016). "Yellow-Fingers - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Yellow Fingers at silentera.com
  5. ^ Pardy, George T. (April 10, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: Yellow Fingers", Motion Picture News, 33 (15), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1619, retrieved April 18, 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Yellow Fingers
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