The most elemental and uncluttered of D.W. Griffith's major melodramas, BROKEN BLOSSOMS (or THE YELLOW MAN AND THE GIRL) is the tragic story of a Chinese man who falls in love with a Cockney waif. Within its 90 minutes, Griffith does more to atone for the racial intolerance he betrayed
in THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1914) than he managed to do in his three-and-a-half-hour epic INTOLERANCE (1916). In a 1952 survey conducted by the British film magazine
Sight and Sound, BROKEN BLOSSOMS was cited as one of the 20 best films of all time. When the publication repeated the survey a decade
later, the movie received not a single vote.
An idealistic young man named Ch...
Released:
1919
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins