Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl Poster

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

05/13/1919 Drama, Romance 1h 29m
69%
User
Score
7.2/10
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

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Media

Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

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Reviews

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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