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

Film details

Featuring

Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess Donald Crisp
Country

USA
Year

1919
Genres

Romance Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Broken Blossoms Alternative
The Yellow Man and the Girl Alternative

Synopsis

The story of a Chinese man's love for an English child, her death at the hands of her brutal father and the suicide of the Chinese man. A Chinese man tries to help in the reform of the Western world. He settles in the East End slums, and falls in love with an ill-treated orphan girl. She is beaten to death by her stepfather, who is then shot by the Chinese man before he takes his own life.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Lucy, the girl
    
    Gish, Miss Lillian
  - Cheng Huan 'The Yellow Man'
    
    Barthelmess, Mr. Richard
  - 'Battling' Burrows
    
    Donald Crisp
  - Burrows' manager
    
    Arthur Howard
  - Evil Eye
    
    Edward Peil
  - The Spying One
    
    Beranger, George
  - a prize fighter
    
    Norman Selby
  - [high priest]
    
    James Wang
  - [policeman]
    
    George Nichols
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Under the Personal Direction of
    
    D.W. Griffith
  - Production Company
    
    United Artists
  - [Producer]
    
    D.W. Griffith
  - [Assistant Director]
    
    Henry Carr
  - [Scenario]
    
    D.W. Griffith
  - Adapted from a story by
    
    Thomas Burke
  - Photography by
    
    Bitzer, G.W.
  - [Special Photographic Effects]
    
    Hendrik Sartov
  - [Miniatures]
    
    Karl Brown
  - [Editor]
    
    James Smith
  - [Editor]
    
    Rose Smith
  - [Technical Adviser]
    
    Moon Kwan

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