Anna Mae Wong gets one of the final roles worthy of her in this adaptation of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel which manages to sail the high seas without ever leaving Ealing and constitutes the fifth and final of five films she made in Britain.
Although Miss Mae Wong as "a heathen Chinese" married to an Englishman introduced to a horrified Nineteenth century Britain doesn't even appear until nearly halfway through the film she gets top billing, making an unlikely team with English rose Elizabeth Allan, their names appear before Edmond Gwenn and John Loder who come in at third and fourth with Ralph Richardson coming up at the rear at fifth in the cast list.
Although Miss Mae Wong as "a heathen Chinese" married to an Englishman introduced to a horrified Nineteenth century Britain doesn't even appear until nearly halfway through the film she gets top billing, making an unlikely team with English rose Elizabeth Allan, their names appear before Edmond Gwenn and John Loder who come in at third and fourth with Ralph Richardson coming up at the rear at fifth in the cast list.