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.
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Lillian Gish
Lucy Burrows
Richard Barthelmess
Cheng Huan
Donald Crisp
Battling Burrows
Arthur Howard
Burrows' Manager
Edward Peil Sr.
Evil Eye
George Beranger
The Spying One
Norman Selby
A Prizefighter
Ernest Butterworth
Secondary Role (uncredited)
Frederic Hamen
Secondary Role (uncredited)
Wilbur Higby
London Policeman (uncredited)
Director
D.W. Griffith
Tagline
"A tale of forbidden love."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$2,400,000
Production
D.W. Griffith Productions
CinemaSerf
June 6, 2022
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 bent on encouraging the British to seek the peaceful ways of the Buddha. From his small emporium, he es...
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