Hai-Tang

Like many other films of the early talkie era before dubbing became more widespread, the film was shot in multiple-language versions, each with a different cast. Three versions of the film were made so they could be screened throughout Europe and the colonial world, such as in Mozambique, Australia and South Africa.^[2] This was Wong's first sound film billed as the star,^{[3][4][Note 1]} and in all three versions she appeared as the female lead.

An English-language version (The Flame of Love/The Road to Dishonour) and a German-language version (Hai-Tang: Der Weg zur Schande) of the film were made with different casts^{[Note 2]} except for Wong, who spoke her part in three different languages. The French-language version was sometimes referred to as L’Amour, maître des choses in French film magazines).^[5] Confusingly, all three versions are often referred to simply as Hai-Tang.^[6]

In the Russian Empire, a young officer and a powerful Grand Duke both fall in love with a Chinese woman.

• Anna May Wong as Hai-Tang
• Marcel Vibert as Le grand duc
• Robert Ancelin as Boris Ivanoff
• Armand Lurville as Le colonel Mouraview
• Hélène Darly as Yvette
• François Viguier as Viguier
• Gaston Dupray as Pierre Baron, le chanteur
• Claire Roman
• Mona Goya
• Gaston Jacquet