EAST IS WEST.
Edward G Robinson & Ruth Hussey,
Gene Lockhart, Guinn Williams, Ester Dale.
Dir: Monta Bell, 1930, Universal.

SYNOPSIS:
Why anyone thought that Eddy Robinson looked remotely Chinese is beyond me but (as in Hatchet Man) here he gives his mob boss act an oriental twist.

"Robinson resisted the film company's pleas to do the picture. He discussed the offer with some Broadway friends. They told him to take the money. East is West was less than a masterpiece and Robinson spent much of his off-camera time dodging the advances of Lupe Velez, who was known to see all her leading men as notches on her bedpost. He resisted, as he always would with leading ladies."
- Alan Gansberg, E G Robinson biographer.

REVIEWS:
"Good daily change grind meller."
- Variety. (?have no idea what this means.)
"Muddled melodrama reminiscent of many silent films."
- Leslie Halliwell.