Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl poster

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

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Lillian Gish

      Lucy Burrows

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      Richard Barthelmess

      Cheng Huan

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      Donald Crisp

      Battling Burrows

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      Arthur Howard

      Burrows' Manager

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      Edward Peil Sr.

      Evil Eye

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      George Beranger

      The Spying One

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      Norman Selby

      A Prizefighter

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      Ernest Butterworth

      Secondary Role (uncredited)

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      Frederic Hamen

      Secondary Role (uncredited)

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      Wilbur Higby

      London Policeman (uncredited)

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      Man-Ching Kwan

      Buddhist Monk (uncredited)

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      Bobbie Mack

      Ringside Employee (uncredited)

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      Moy Ming

      Minor Role (uncredited)

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      Steve Murphy

      Fight Spectator (uncredited)

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      George Nichols

      Police Constable (uncredited)

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      Karla Schramm

      Burrows' Girlfriend (uncredited)

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      Bessie Wong

      Girl in China (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 06 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 di...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    2400000.00

    Keywords

    • suicide
    • london, england
    • china
    • boxer
    • buddhist
    • murder
    • racism
    • black and white
    • alcoholic
    • silent film
    • based on short story