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Broken Blossoms
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Unforgettable. One of those lucky congruences of talent and timing." -Richard Shickel, D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London.
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to EngIand to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is LiIlian Gish who iIIuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she pIays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserabIe existence. EmotionalIy scarred by the torment and negIect of her abusive father she coIlapses in the shop of the Ionely and disiIlusioned "yellow man." As he tenderIy nurtures her back to heaIth, an unspoken romance fIowers between them, awakening in each of them feelings of love they thought themselves forever denied.
ln some ways, Broken BIossoms was Griffith's response to critics of The Birth Of A Nation, an effort to clear himself of Iingering charges of racism. However, cinematic convention forbade physical intimacy between the two races. With this in mind, Griffith took what might have been a boId interraciaI romance and transformed the two races.
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