Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

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

A tale of forbidden love.

⭐ 6.9/10 May 13, 1919 1h 29m

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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.

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CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

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...

Jun 06, 2022