Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

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.

Cast

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

as Lucy Burrows

Richard Barthelmess

Richard Barthelmess

as Cheng Huan

Donald Crisp

Donald Crisp

as Battling Burrows

Arthur Howard

Arthur Howard

as Burrows' Manager

Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

as Evil Eye

George Beranger

George Beranger

as The Spying One

Norman Selby

Norman Selby

as A Prizefighter

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 ben...

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