Public Domain Movies

Old San Francisco is a 1927 American synchronized sound historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process.

Plot
Chris Buckwell, cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste, part Chinese and part European. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernandez Vasquez, sends Michael Brandon, an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence, meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores, while Vasquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vasquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is half Chinese, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from white slavery by the great earthquake of 1906 that kills the villain.[4]

Cast
Dolores Costello as Dolores Vasquez
Warner Oland as Chris Buckwell
Charles E. Mack as Terrence "Terry" O'Shaughnessy
Josef Swickard as Don Hernandez de Vasquez
Anders Randolph as Michael Brandon
Angelo Rossita as Chang Loo, a dwarf
Anna May Wong as A Flower of the Orient
Lawson Butt as Captain Enrique de Solano Y Vasquez (in Prologue)
Walter McGrail as Vasquez's grandson, who gets shot (in Prologue)
Otto Matieson as another Vasquez grandson (in Prologue)
Martha Mattox as Mother Vasquez (in Prologue)
Thomas Santschi as Captain Stoner (in Prologue)
Louise Carver as Big nosed woman on the Mile of Hell (uncredited)
Rose Dione as Madame in Den of Iniquity (uncredited)
Willie Fung as Chang Sue Lee's laughing servant (uncredited)
Tom McGuire as Man at poodle dog cafe (uncredited)
John Miljan as Don Luis (uncredited)
Sōjin Kamiyama as Lu Fong (uncredited)