| Mandarin Mix-Up | |
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| Directed by | Scott Pembroke |
| Written by | Tay Garnett |
| Produced by | Joe Rock |
| Starring | Stan Laurel |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Mandarin Mix-Up is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Pembroke and starring Stan Laurel. [1]
Stan is the new baby in the family and is shown in a high chair playing with a ball. His big brother is angry that the baby is throwing food at him and ties him into a laundry bag.
He is taken to a Chinese laundry and the story jumps twenty years. The family has raised him as their son and call him Sum Sap. He has a very long pigtail. He angers a Tong gangster and is in fear of his life. Sap falls in love with a Chinese girl and pursues her in slow motion. He falls into the Buddhist temple and angers the men. A battle begins between the tongs. Stan appears in a police uniform and the street battle stops.
With his uniform on he refuses to pay for a hot dog and is rude to the stall owner. One of the men draws a knife on him. He goes into a costume shop and disguises himself. The gang member tells him how he is going to slit Sum Sap's throat.
Whilst talking to a real policeman someone tries to kill him by dropping a vase on his head. After a few more things are dropped. Lili gives him a pistol and he fires it into the firework shop which explodes.
He marries his Chinese girlfriend Lili (Julie Leonard). Just then, her real parents and want to take her away. A bill poster is handed to him saying that Roger Cresus has left Sun Sap a million dollars because he loved him like a son.
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