The Blood of Passion on the Volcano
Alternate title(s): Loving Blood of the Volcano, Fire and Blood
Foreign Title: Huoshan Qingxie
Date: January 01, 1932 to December 31, 1932
Dates Note: 1932
Country of Origin:
China
Place of Origin: China
Languages:
Chinese intertitles
Color: B&W
Silent: Yes
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Curator Notes
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural RevolutionDescription:
A warlord’s lusty nephew destroys a simple farming family’s pastoral idyll and sends its favorite son into tropical exile in Sun Yu’s delirious combination of Chinese peasant drama and Hollywood-style decadent island exotica. Brokenhearted after his family’s ruin, our hero (Zheng Junli) winds up in a South Seas hellhole seemingly borrowed from some leftover Lon Chaney film set, where saloon brawls, sleazy floor shows, and oblivion await him. A sultry dancing girl (Li Lili, in the Joan Crawford role) promises salvation, until the warlord’s nephew suddenly reappears—and that volcano starts to erupt.
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