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Broken Blossoms

A Tale of Forbidden Love
1919 | 89m | English

(11606 votes)

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Popularity: 0.9 (history)

Director: D.W. Griffith
Writer: D.W. Griffith
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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.
Release Date: May 13, 1919
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writer: D.W. Griffith
Genres: Drama, Romance
Keywords london, england, suicide, china, boxer, buddhist, murder, racism, black and white, alcoholic, silent film, based on short story
Production Companies United Artists, D.W. Griffith Productions
Box Office Revenue: $2,400,000
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Feb 01, 2025
Entered: Apr 13, 2024
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Name Character
Lillian Gish Lucy Burrows
Richard Barthelmess Cheng Huan
Donald Crisp Battling Burrows
Arthur Howard Burrows' Manager
Edward Peil Sr. Evil Eye
George Beranger The Spying One
Norman Selby A Prizefighter
Name Job
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith Director, Writer
James Smith Editor
Thomas Burke Short Story
Name Title
D.W. Griffith Producer
Organization Category Person
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Geronimo1967
7.0

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 ben ... t 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 a little hammy at times, he flexes his muscles and his grimace a little too theatrically - but the story is tightly told with empathy for the girl, sympathy for the boy and a gently bubbling hatred for the father for whom just desserts can only be a matter of time.

Jun 06, 2022