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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

13/05/1919 (US)Drama, Romance1h 29m
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A tale of forbidden love.

Overview

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Lillian Gish

      Lillian Gish

      Lucy Burrows

    2. Richard Barthelmess

      Richard Barthelmess

      Cheng Huan

    3. Donald Crisp

      Donald Crisp

      Battling Burrows

    4. Arthur Howard

      Burrows' Manager

    5. Edward Peil Sr.

      Edward Peil Sr.

      Evil Eye

    6. George Beranger

      George Beranger

      The Spying One

    7. Norman Selby

      Norman Selby

      A Prizefighter

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Jun 6, 2022

    Richard Barthelmess and an almost porcelain-looking Lilian Gish are both great in this intimate, beautifully photographed, tale of a true love. Gish is a young girl from London's East end who is persistently brutalised by her violent pugilist father. Barthelmess is a man newly arrived from China bent on encouraging the British to seek the peaceful ways of the Buddha. From his small emporium, he espies this young girl and after one particularly horrific attack by her father, takes her in and nourishes her back to health. Sadly, bigotry and intolerance are still pretty rife and when her father d...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget-

    Revenue$2,400,000.00

    Keywords

    • suicide
    • london, england
    • china
    • boxer
    • buddhist
    • murder
    • racism
    • black and white
    • alcoholic
    • silent film
    • based on short story