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Java Head

Java Head

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1923

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Drama, Romance

Original Title

Java Head

Production Companies

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Director

George Melford

Description

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.