Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) Reviews & Ratings

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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl reviews

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl holds a 6.9/10 average from 251 TMDB ratings.

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 espies this young gir…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

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