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Broken Blossoms (1919)

Name: Broken Blossoms
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1919
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Cast: Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess, Kid McCoy, George Beranger

191989 minClassic Drama✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Broken Blossoms (1919) is an 89-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by D. W. Griffith.

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About Broken Blossoms (1919)

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919.

Cheng Huan leaves his native China because he "dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands." His idealism fades as he is faced with the brutal reality of London's gritty inner-city. However, his mission is finally realized in his devotion to the "broken blossom" Lucy Burrows, the beautiful but unwanted and abused daughter of boxer Battling Burrows. After being beaten and discarded one evening by her raging father, Lucy finds sanctuary in Cheng's home, the beautiful and exotic room above his shop.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Broken Blossoms (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: D. W. Griffith
Cast includes: Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess, Kid McCoy, George Beranger, George Nichols, Edward Peil
Country: United States

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1919 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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