Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
F.F. Guenste
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Emmett King
- Bishop Vail - Chessplayer
- (uncredited)
Lillian Langdon
- Party Hostess
- (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
- Party Host
- (uncredited)
Arthur Millett
- Detective at Party
- (uncredited)
Robert Page
- Policeman at Mike Donovan shooting
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA Jewel Production. Universal did not own a proprietary theater network and sought to differentiate its feature product to independent theater owners. Carl Laemmle created a 3-tiered branding system: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige films). Jewel releases were promoted as worthy of special promotion in hopes of commanding higher roadshow ticket prices. Universal ended branding in late 1929.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
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White Tiger is toothless
Master of horror Todd Browning goes heavy metaphor in this listless story about a group of con artists out to bilk swells with a mechanical chess player that is actually manned.
Sylvia (Priscilla Dean) and Roy Donovan (Ray Griffith) are orphaned when their criminal dad Mike, ratted out by Hawkes (Wallace Beery) is gunned down by the cops. Separated the kids think the other is dead. Sylvia taken by Hawkes grows up to be a confidence person while Roy works a sideshow with the chess act. Reunited but still unaware they join forces to bilk high society and make off with a cache of jewelry. When plans go awry though they are forced to lay low in a cabin where things get tense between the principals.
The four leads, particularly Dean do what they can with the tedious script and its incestuous overtones but Browning fails to rev up the suspense. Instead it becomes one long disagreement between shifty characters with the director determined to hammer home an adage about the white tiger, resorting to employing a kitten at the finish to add cloying to the films list of drawbacks.
Sylvia (Priscilla Dean) and Roy Donovan (Ray Griffith) are orphaned when their criminal dad Mike, ratted out by Hawkes (Wallace Beery) is gunned down by the cops. Separated the kids think the other is dead. Sylvia taken by Hawkes grows up to be a confidence person while Roy works a sideshow with the chess act. Reunited but still unaware they join forces to bilk high society and make off with a cache of jewelry. When plans go awry though they are forced to lay low in a cabin where things get tense between the principals.
The four leads, particularly Dean do what they can with the tedious script and its incestuous overtones but Browning fails to rev up the suspense. Instead it becomes one long disagreement between shifty characters with the director determined to hammer home an adage about the white tiger, resorting to employing a kitten at the finish to add cloying to the films list of drawbacks.
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- st-shot
- Nov 24, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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