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

May 13, 1919 Drama, Romance 1h 29m
User Score
69%
232 votes
Internet Movie Database
72%
Rotten Tomatoes
95%

A tale of forbidden love.

Overview

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.

D.W. Griffith
Director

Top Billed Cast

Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish

Lucy Burrows
Richard Barthelmess
Richard Barthelmess

Cheng Huan
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp

Battling Burrows
Arthur Howard
Arthur Howard

Burrows' Manager
Edward Peil Sr.
Edward Peil Sr.

Evil Eye
George Beranger
George Beranger

The Spying One
Norman Selby
Norman Selby

A Prizefighter

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms
Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on June 6, 2022

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...

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