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Broken blossoms / written and directed by D.W. Griffith.
LIBRA DVD 009 206
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Griffith masterworks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burke, Thomas, 1886-1945--Film adaptations.
- Burke, Thomas.
- Burke, Thomas, 1886-1945.
- Prejudices.
- Child abuse.
- Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations--Drama.
- Child abuse--Drama.
- Prejudices--Drama.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Romance films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kino on Video, 2001.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp.
- Credits:
- Photographed by G.W. Bitzer ; music composed and performed by Joseph Turrin ; produced for video by Bret Wood.
- Notes:
- Issued in slipcase as part of a seven-DVD boxed set.
- From the story "The chink and the child" by Thomas Burke.
- Videodisc release of the 1919 motion picture.
- Digitally remastered from a 33mm print at the correct projection speed, with color tints, and a new orchestral score by Joseph Turrin recorded in digital stereo.
- Special features include filmed introduction by Lillian Gish, including excerpts from Gish's film Romula; text of Thomas Burke's original story; a recording of the 1919 song, "Broken blossoms"; D.W. Griffith on leading ladies; about the score.
- OCLC:
- 187522946
- Publisher Number:
- 738329019624
- K196 DVD Kino
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