Based on "-The Chink and the Child", a story by Thomas Burke, Broken Blossoms is one of D.W. Griffith's most poetic films. Richard Barthelmess plays a young Chinese aristocrat who hopes to spread the gospel of his Eastern religion to the grimy corners of London's Limehouse district. Rapidly ...more
Year: 1919 | Running Time: 102 minutes
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Based on "-The Chink and the Child", a story by Thomas Burke, Broken Blossoms is one of D.W. Griffith's most poetic films. Richard Barthelmess plays a young Chinese aristocrat who hopes to spread the gospel of his Eastern religion to the grimy corners of London's Limehouse district. Rapidly disillusioned, Barthelmess opens a curio shop and takes to smoking opium. One evening, Lillian Gish, the waif-like daughter of drunken prizefighter Donald Crisp, collapses on Barthelmess' doorstep after ...more
- Lillian Gish - Lucy Burrows
- Richard Barthelmess - Cheng Haun, the Yellow Man
- Donald Crisp - Battling Burrows
- Edward Peil Sr. - Evil Eye
- Arthur Howard - Burrow's Manager
- Ernest Butterworth Sr.
- Karla Schramm
- Wilbur Higby - London Policeman
- Kid McCoy - A Prizefighter
- George Nichols - London Policeman
- George Andre Beranger - The Spying One
- D.W. Griffith - Director
- D.W. Griffith - Producer
- D.W. Griffith - Screenwriter
- James Smith - Editor
- D.W. Griffith - Composer (Music Score)
- Louis F. Gottschalk - Composer (Music Score)
- Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer
- Karl Brown - Cinematographer
- Hendrik Sartov - Cinematographer
- Hendrik Sartov - Special Effects










