Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

Director: D.W. Griffith Cast: Richard Barthelmess
Richard Barthelmess
, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
, Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp
, Edward Piel
Edward Piel
D.W. Griffith
Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

Director: D.W. Griffith Cast: Richard Barthelmess
Richard Barthelmess
, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
, Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp
, Edward Piel
Edward Piel
D.W. Griffith

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Overview

Based on "The Chink and the Child", a story by Thomas Burke, Broken Blossoms is one of D.W. Griffith's most poetic films. Richard Barthelmess plays a young Chinese aristocrat who hopes to spread the gospel of his Eastern religion to the grimy corners of London's Limehouse district. Rapidly disillusioned, Barthelmess opens a curio shop and takes to smoking opium. One evening, Lillian Gish, the waif-like daughter of drunken prizefighter Donald Crisp, collapses on Barthelmess' doorstep after enduring one more of her father's brutal beatings. Barthelmess shelters the girl, providing her with the love and kindness that she has never known. Crisp, offended that his daughter is living with a "heathen," forces the girl to return home with him. In a terrible drunken rage, Crisp beats Lillian to death. Barthelmess arrives on the scene, kills Crisp, then kneels beside Lillian's body and takes his own life.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/22/2016
UPC: 0889290225108
Original Release: 1919
Source: Film Detective
Language: English
Time: 1:30:00
Sales rank: 53,571

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Richard Barthelmess The Yellow Man
Lillian Gish Lucy - The Girl
Donald Crisp Battling Burrows
Edward Piel Evil Eye,Actor
Arthur Howard His Manager
André de Beranger The Spying One
Norman 'Kid McCoy' Selby A Prizefighter,Actor
George Nicholls London Policeman
Moon Kwan Buddhist Monk
Edward Peil Sr. Evil Eye
Ernest Butterworth Sr. Actor
Kid McCoy A Prizefighter
George Nichols London Policeman
Karla Schramm Actor
Wilbur Higby London Policeman
George Beranger Actor
Ernest Butterworth Actor
Fred Hamer Actor
D.W. Griffith Composer
Louis Gottschalk Composer,Composer

Technical Credits
D.W. Griffith Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Hendrik Sartov Special Effects
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