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Who Is to Blame?
UNITED STATES · 1918

Who Is to Blame?

Frank Borzage
infidelity cross-cultural friendship marital conflict redemption temptation
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Synopsis

Charmed by the bright smile of Taro San, a Japanese rickshaw boy, Grant Barton takes the young man to the United States as his valet. Grant marries Marion Craig, but when she departs for California to visit her sick mother, he becomes enamored of Tonia Marsh, a vamp. Marion discovers them together and leaves Grant, whereupon Taro resolves to help his kind employer out of his difficulties. Persuadi

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