Inquisition
2002
“A tale of forbidden love.”
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
May 13, 19191h 29mEN
6.9
241 votes
Overview
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.
Director
D.W. GriffithWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$2.4M
Production Companies
D.W. Griffith Productions
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7.0Richard 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 nourishes her back to health. Sadly, bigotry and intolerance are still pretty rife and when her father d…
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