Thundergate

Thundergate

70 mins | Drama | Oct. 15, 1923

Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.

Thundergate

70 mins | Drama | Oct. 15, 1923

Thundergate
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
Producers First National Pictures
Original title Thundergate
Directors Joseph De Grasse
Writers Sydney Herschel Small, Perry N. Vekroff

Cast

Owen Moore

as Robert Wells / Kong Sur

Virginia Brown Faire

as Ellen Ainsmith / Jen Jue

Edwin B. Tilton

as James Sanderson (as Edwin Booth Tilton)

Sylvia Breamer

as Alberta Hayward

Robert McKim

as Ray Williams

Richard Cummings

as Jim Davis

W.E. Dyer

as Mike

Tully Marshall

as Suen Tung

Willie Fung

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Bernard Siegel

as Minor Role (uncredited)