Broken blossoms

Broken blossoms [videorecording] / Container title: D.W. Griffith's Broken blossoms Yellow man and the girl Kino International ; under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith. - Digitally remastered version. - NYC : Kino on Video, c2001. - 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in. - Griffith masterworks .

Videodisc release of the 1919 motion picture. Adapted from a story by Thomas Burke. "Digitally remastered from a 33mm print at the correct projection speed, with color tints, and a new score by Joseph Turrin recorded in digital stereo"--Container. Special features: filmed introduction by Lillian Gish, including excerpts from Gish's film Romola; text of Thomas Burke's original story; a recording of the 1919 song, "Broken blossoms"; D.W. Griffith on leading ladies; about the score.

Photography, G.W. Bitzer ; music, Joseph Turrin ; video producer, Bret Wood. Photography, G.W. Bitzer ; music, Joseph Turrin ; video producer, Bret Wood.

Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp.

A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. Nursing her back to health, tragedy results when an unspoken romance flowers between them.


DVD; NTSC (Region 1).

738329019624

K196 Kino on Video


Silent films.
Feature films.
Ethnic relations--England--London--Drama.
Child abuse--England--London--Drama.
Chinese--England--London--Drama.

CM DVD 00694

791.4372