Son of the Gods is a black-and-white romantic drama film with Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 sequences. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Rex Beach

Rex Beach

Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.- Biography :...

. Richard Barthelmess

Richard Barthelmess

Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.-Early life:Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut...

 and Constance Bennett

Constance Bennett

-Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...

 star as a couple in love who have a falling-out when she discovers that, though he looks Caucasian, he is actually Chinese.

Cast

• Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee
• Constance Bennett as Allana Wagner
• Anders Randolf
  Anders Randolf
  Anders Randolf was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1931.Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swordsman. He immigrated to the United States in 1895, quickly giving in to a lifelong passion for the...
  
   as Wagner, Allana's father
• E. Alyn Warren
  E. Alyn Warren
  E. Alyn Warren , was an American actor. He appeared in 99 films between 1915 and 1940.He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:* The Virgin of Stamboul...
  
   as Lee Ying, Sam's father
• Claude King as Bathurst
• Frank Albertson
  Frank Albertson
  Frank Albertson was an American character actor who made his debut in a minor part in Hollywood at age 13....
  
  as Kicker
• King Hou Chang as Moy
• Mildred Van Dorn as Eileen
• Barbara Leonard as Mabel

Preservation

The film only survives in black and white. One reel was originally in Technicolor, but no color prints seem to have survived.