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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 18, 1999
• R2: 16 Oct 2000
Budget $88,000
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
D.W. Griffith Productions, Paramount Pictures
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• Broken Blossoms
• Blüte gebrochen, Eine (1923)
• The Chink and the Child
• Gebrochene Blüten (1923)
• Im Schatten der Großstadt - Aus dem Chinesenviertel von San (1923)
• Scarlet Blossoms
• The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
• Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Love, Melodrama, Culture Clash
Plot: This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An idealistic Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed "sons of turmoil and strife." Instead he winds up a disillusioned, opium-smoking shopkeeper in London's squalid Limehouse District. Down the street, a poor waif (Lillian Gish) suffers horrific abuse at the hands of her boxer father (Donald Crisp). When fortune delivers the battered girl into the Asian's tender care, a strange and beautiful love blossoms between them, a love far too fragile to survive their brutal environment. Griffith directed with his unique blend of poetry and realism, and Miss Gish delivers a typically first-rate performance as the girl; the result is a work of art that's both eloquent and crushing. The film was originally presented with color tinting and a musical score composed by Griffith, both of which may vary in different video and film versions.
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| Directed by |
D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages, Way Down East |
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| Written by |
Thomas Burke
Dream Street, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alfred Hitchcock Presents | D.W. Griffith
Diane of the Follies, Daphne and the Pirate, The Birth of a Nation |
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Lillian Gish
The Night of the Hunter, The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages | | Donald Crisp
The Birth of a Nation, How Green Was My Valley, Mutiny on the Bounty | | | | | |
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| Music By |
D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages, Way Down East |
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