Broken Blossoms

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Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent film film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp. The film paints an intimate portrait of Cheng Huan (Barthelmess), a kind hearted Chinese man, and his love for a poor abused girl named Lucy Burrows (Gish), as well as the brutality of Battling Burrows, a sadistic prizefighter. Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess) leaves his native China to spread the word of the Budd... more
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  • 1919

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D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22 1875 – July 23, 1948) was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith, of Welsh ancestry, was born...

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