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Cast. Lillian Gish as Lucy Burrows. Richard Barthelmess as Cheng Huan. Donald Crisp as Battling Burrows. Arthur Howard as Burrows' manager.
Broken Blossoms: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard. A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
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- Drama, Romance
- D.W. Griffith
- 1919-10-20
Jan 23, 2000 · Griffith in 1919 was the unchallenged king of serious American movies (only C.B. DeMille rivaled him in fame), and “Broken Blossoms” was seen as brave and controversial.
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.
Cast. Lillian Gish as Lucy Burrows. Richard Barthelmess as Cheng Huan. Donald Crisp as Battling Burrows. Arthur Howard as Burrows' manager. Edward Peil Sr. as Evil Eye. George Beranger as The Spying One. Norman Selby (aka Kid McCoy) as A prizefighter. Production and style. Newspaper advertisement for the film.
Three actors on top form, the fragile, vulnerable Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess (the only film I have seen him in I think), and an early (well-built - what a body!) the great Donald...
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- Drama
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Following the introduction of co-star Richard Barthelmess as "The Yellow Man," orphan Lucy (Lillian Gish) is positioned in dire circumstances in London, her adopted father (Donald Crisp) much of the problem, in D.W. Griffith's.
