Broken blossoms [videorecording] / Kino International ; under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K196 | Kino on VideoSeries: Griffith masterworksPublication details: NYC : Kino on Video, c2001.Edition: Digitally remastered versionDescription: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. tinted ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Container title: D.W. Griffith's Broken blossoms
  • Yellow man and the girl
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00694
Production credits:
  • Photography, G.W. Bitzer ; music, Joseph Turrin ; video producer, Bret Wood.
Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp.Summary: 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.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 00694 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000039561

DVD; NTSC (Region 1).

Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp.

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

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.

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.

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.

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