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Broken Blossoms

A Tale of Forbidden Love

6.9 / 10

89 minutes

1919-05-13

English

US

Actors :

Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Beranger, Norman Selby

Description

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.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/6/2022, 4:30:01 PM

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 es...