Top billed cast

1. 

   Lillian Gish

   Lucy Burrows

2. 

   Richard Barthelmess

   Cheng Huan

3. 

   Donald Crisp

   Battling Burrows

4. 

   Arthur Howard

   Burrows' Manager

5. 

   Edward Peil Sr.

   Evil Eye

6. 

   George Beranger

   The Spying One

7. 

   Norman Selby

   A Prizefighter

8. 

   Ernest Butterworth

   Secondary Role (uncredited)

9. 

   Frederic Hamen

   Secondary Role (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06

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 girl and after one particularly horrific attack by her father, takes her in and nourishes her back to health. Sadly, bigotry and intolerance are still pretty rife and when her father d...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$2,400,000.00

Keywords

• suicide
• london, england
• china
• boxer
• buddhist
• murder
• racism
• black and white
• alcoholic
• silent film
• based on short story