Arthur Howard, Donald Crisp, Edward Peil Sr.
Gentle ideologist Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess) migrates to England hoping to sow the seeds of Buddhism's pacifist canons. Instead, he ends up as an opium addict in London's seedy Limehouse distric...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 11, 1999
Stats: 170 reviews
the story of a chinese man who falls in love with a girl of the london slums played by lillian gish. the chinese character is played by a white man and somewhat emasculated but overall it's a pretty sympathetic portrayal of interracial romance for 1919. some beautiful camerawor...( read more)
A nice little film with some groundbreaking themes. (Interracial love, child abuse, and losing religious faith.) I would have liked a little more build up to the love story but the film does look great.
One of those silent classics I?ve been meaning to cross off the list. D.W. Griffin?s second post-Birth of a Nation project, and a continuation of his reformed view of race relations. Still racially offensive when viewed with modern standards, but rather progressive in the conte...( read more)
D.W. Griffith's silent film Broken Blossoms is the story of a young girl whose father abuses her. After being beaten nearly to death by her drunken father, she is rescued by a Chinese man and stays with him for a while. The two sort of fall in love and this makes her father quite...( read more)
A powerful social commentary, as well as a shocking character study about the influence of our behavior with the world, and the motines that drove us to them. Good Griffith work.
84/100
"The Spirit of Beauty breaks her blossoms all about his chamber."
This is an exquisitely poetic silent film. Lillian Gish is luminous and heartbreaking as a sad, abused young girl. Its gorgeous images and tragic story will stay with me for some time.
Su moralismo esquemático y humanismo forzado menguan sus méritos cinematográficos. / Its schematic moralism and forced humanism hinder its cinematic merits.
One of D.W. Griffith's little know movies compared to some of his earlier movies but one of his very best.
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