Broken Blossoms

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Aka The Yellow Man and the Girl, Chink and the Child and Scarlet Blossoms. A tragic tale of inter-racial friendship, in which a gentle Chinese man shelters an innocent and fragile young woman from a brutal father. This is a tender and delicate miniature, blessed with an inspired studio recreation of London's Limehouse area and a heart-tugging performance of extraordinary spiritual radiance from Lillian Gish.

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Review by Wolfram Parge on 6th July 2004

When the Father Of Film released this picture in 1919, almost no film artist could escape its influence. Broken Blossoms is a harrowing melodrama in which a gentle Chinese missionary becomes a small shopkeeper in London's Limehouse and falls in love with a poor girl brutalized by her father. She escapes after one such beating and collapses in front of Cheng Huan's shop, who lovingly takes care of her. It is the only hopeful moment in the film, destroyed when Lucy's father returns to discover her whereabouts. Although terribly sad and violent, the performances of the Chinese and the little girl by Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish are supremely spiritual. Beautifully tinted and eloquently moving, Griffith's film has always been immortal.

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Review by John Davies on 10th October 2002

A tragic tale of inter-racial friendship, in which a gentle Chinese man shelters an innocent and fragile young woman from a brutal father- is a tender and delicate miniature, blessed with an inspired studio recreation of London's Limehouse area and a heart-tugging performance of extraordinary spiritual radiance from Lillian Gish.

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Article - "Beautiful Spring; 10 Silent Classics" by John Davies
Monday 23rd September 2002

I hope with this selection both to challenge the prevailing notion of silent cinema as hopelessly primitive, and to encourage pleasurable discovery. Spurred by pioneers like the aptly named Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, (whose fantasies seem sprinkled with mag...  View article in full

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