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Broken Blossoms
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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"Unforgettable. One of those Iucky congruences of taIent and timing." -Richard Shickel, D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith reached a pinnacIe of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic taIe of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London.
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayaI of a Chinese man who traveIs to EngIand to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is LilIian Gish who ilIuminates the screen. ln this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-oId street urchin who Iongs to escape her miserabIe existence. EmotionalIy scarred by the torment and negIect of her abusive father she coIIapses 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 interracial romance and transformed the two races.
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