Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
December 15, 2008Broken Blossoms
Call Number: VHS00500 Copy 1
VHS00500 Copy 2
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Donald Crisp; Richard Barthelmess; Thomas Burke; Viking Video Classics.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: [Burbank, CA] : Viking Video Classics, [1986]; Copy 2: New York, NY : HBO Video, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1919 (71 mins.); Based on the story The Chink and the child, from Thomas Burke’s Limehouse nights; Silent with music track added;
Summary: A pioneering work about interracial love: A Chinese youth in London takes in a brutalized girl who collapses in his shop after having been beaten by her father, and shows her the only kindness she has ever known. When she is killed by her enraged father, the Chinese kills the man and then takes his own life
OCLC #: Copy 1: 42482860, Copy 2: 42479135
Added: December 15, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
