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Broken Blossoms

"A Tale of Forbidden Love"

1919-05-13 Drama 1hr 29m

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.

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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.

  • Released
    1919-05-13
  • Revenue
    $2,400,000
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    1hr 29m
  • Genre
    Drama, Romance
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    No Language
  • imdb-logo
    0
  • Production
    D.W. Griffith Productions, United Artists

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D.W. Griffith
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Producer
Keywords:
suicide london, england china boxer buddhist murder racism black and white alcoholic silent film based on short story

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Cast

Lillian Gish

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Lucy Burrows
Richard Barthelmess

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Cheng Huan
Donald Crisp

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Arthur Howard

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Reviews for Broken Blossoms
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A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-06-06

Richard Barthelmess and an almost porcelain-looking Lilian Gish are both great in this intimate, beautifully photographed, tale of a true lo... read more

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 discovers where she has taken refuge, tragedy ensues... It's a simple story, very well executed by D.W. Griffith with a delightful style to it. An early outing for Donald Crisp as her bruiser father is a little hammy at times, he flexes his muscles and his grimace a little too theatrically - but the story is tightly told with empathy for the girl, sympathy for the boy and a gently bubbling hatred for the father for whom just desserts can only be a matter of time.

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A Review by CinemaSerf

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 pugili...

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A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-06-06

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 persi...

read more