Welcome Danger (1929) on Netflix
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student and the son of a former police captain, travels to San Francisco, where a crime wave needs solving. The desk sergeant sends him after the Dragon.
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Plot summary
A crime wave in Chinatown draws Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, to San Francisco, where city authorities expect him to work as ably as his father, a former police captain. Billie Lee and her young brother Buddy are driving there so Dr. Chang Gow, a Chinese physician, can treat Buddy's lame leg. Harold meets Billie after her car breaks down, and the three spend a night beside the road before a cow pulls the car to a gas station. At police headquarters Harold takes prints of everyone present, among them the respected John Thorne. A desk sergeant, hoping to be rid of him, assigns him to find the Dragon, the hidden master of the Chinese underworld, and gives him a fingerprint he says is the Dragon's.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Welcome Danger (1929)
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- Playwright and film director Hong Shen went to Shanghai's Grand Cinema to see Welcome Danger and walked out in protest when a scene showed Harold Lloyd throwing money on the ground to a Chinese flower seller; he came back before the next screening to urge the audience to boycott the film.
- On Welcome Danger's first day of release in China, 21 February 1930, 35 angry viewers wrote to Shanghai's Republican Daily News, saying the film mocked the Chinese diaspora in America and showed Chinese people in a deceitful and ugly manner.
- Harold Lloyd had already completed Welcome Danger as a silent feature when his distributor Paramount Pictures was heavily promoting talking pictures, so he remade it with sound, recasting some supporting roles with stage-trained actors familiar with dialogue.
- Ted Wilde started the silent version of Welcome Danger but fell ill and was replaced by Clyde Bruckman; Wilde died of a stroke two months after the film's premiere.
