The Remittance Woman

The Remittance Woman
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Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Written by	Achmed Abdullah (novel) Carol Warren
Starring	Ethel Clayton Rockliffe Fellowes Mario Carillo
Cinematography	Joseph A. Du Bray
Production company	Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	May 12, 1923 (1923-05-12)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Remittance Woman is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Ethel Clayton, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Mario Carillo.^[1][2] A remittance man (or woman) was one sent away from home (usually Britain) to avoid shame on the family. The following year a book of the same title appeared, by American pulp author Achmed Abdullah.

Cast

• Ethel Clayton as Marie Campbell
• Rockliffe Fellowes as George Holt
• Mario Carillo as Moses d'Acosta
• Frank Lanning as Tsang Tse
• Tom Wilson as Higginson
• Etta Lee as Liu Po-Yat
• James B. Leong as Chuen To Yan
• Edward Kimball as Anthony Campbell
• Toyo Fujita as Sun Yu-Wen

Preservation

With no prints of The Remittance Woman located in any film archives,^[3] it is a lost film.

References

1. Goble p. 1
2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Remittance Woman at silentera.com
3. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Remittance Woman

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Remittance Woman at IMDb