Broken blossoms

Duration: 102 mi

Year Published: 1919

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: silent

Description: Set in the Limehouse district of London, Griffith's film is the story of a Chinese man's chaste love for a young girl persecuted by her brutal father. Griffith made this raw melodrama a violent yet tender tragedy. This color print was taken from the original tinted nitrate footage. (Circulates), A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. --IMDb

Complete Record: Set in the Limehouse district of London, Griffith's film is the story of a Chinese man's chaste love for a young girl persecuted by her brutal father. Griffith made this raw melodrama a violent yet tender tragedy. This color print was taken from the original tinted nitrate footage. (Circulates) , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

3 users have this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Kinonik, New York Public Library

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