While visiting French Indochina with his girlfriend and her family on her father's yacht, freeloading American playboy Bill Carey falls in love with Manon DeVargnes, a beautiful, local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon. Manon is also being romantically pursued by local businessman Pierre Delaroch. Bill eventually marries Manon. When Bill is unable to find employment in Saigon, Delaroch secretly arranges to have Bill employed by his company.

as Bill Carey

Robert Taylor

as Manon DeVargnes

Hedy Lamarr

as Pierre Delaroch

Joseph Schildkraut

Gloria Franklin as Nina

as Father Antoine

Ernest Cossart

Mary Taylor as Dolly Harrison

as Alfred Z. Harrison

Charles Trowbridge

as Colonel Demassey

Frederick Worlock

as Lamartine

Paul Porcasi

as Madame Kya

Marguerita Padula

as Countess Berichi

Cecil Cunningham

as Mrs. Hazlitt

Natalie Moorhead

Reception[edit]

According to MGM records, the film made $1,042,000 in the US and Canada and $491,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $99,000.^[1]

Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction. University of California Press, 1993.

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