Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay is a 1934 low-budget British film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong. Plot Michael, a young Englishman abroad, is determined to prove that love and romance can exist even in the slums. He goes to search for it in Tiger Bay, the French-administered tropical "home of all the riff-raff of the Seven Seas", confident he can bring back proof that good in its most romantic form exists even there. Tiger Bay is noisy, violent and lawless. Lui Chang runs a bar where she conceals her young, pretty, blonde foster sister Letty. Lui wants to protect Letty from the evils of Tiger Bay, and is saving money to allow them to leave. Letty sneaks downstairs to watch Lui perform a new dance for the customers and is spotted by Olaf, a local rough. Michael defends Letty, he fights with Olaf and is stabbed in the arm. Lui assists him, and he is allowed to recover from his wound upstairs. Michael and Letty fall in love. Olaf proposes charging Lui for "protecting" her business, but Lui proudly refuses his proposition. Lui explains to Michael that her father had been a Manchu of the mandarin class, who had had to flee China during the 1911 revolution, taking with him his daughter Lui and Letty, the child of his English friend who was killed. Mr. Chang set up in business in Tiger Bay, but recently died leaving to Lui the business and the care of Letty.