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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
“A tale of forbidden love.”
Cast
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)
Man-Ching Kwan
Buddhist Monk (uncredited)
Bobbie Mack
Ringside Employee (uncredited)
Moy Ming
Minor Role (uncredited)
Steve Murphy
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
George Nichols
Police Constable (uncredited)
Karla Schramm
Burrows' Girlfriend (uncredited)
Bessie Wong
Girl in China (uncredited)
Synopsis
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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