Facing public shame after an arrest in a Chinatown casino crackdown, Judge Avery's daughter Viola romances an immigrations officer to provide an alibi for her in "Shadows of the Orient" (1935). As Viola tries to keep the infatuated officer Baxter at bay from finding out too much about the casino boss's owner King Moss, to whom she owes a debt of silence, she finds this debt ensnaring her in his Chinese-smuggling racket.
Facing public shame after an arrest in a Chinatown casino crackdown, Judge Avery's daughter Viola romances an immigrations officer to provide an alibi for her in "Shadows of the Orient" (1935). As Viola tries to keep the infatuated officer Baxter at bay from finding out too much about the casino boss's owner King Moss, to whom she owes a debt of silence, she finds this debt ensnaring her in his Chinese-smuggling racket.
