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Broken Blossoms

1936 film by John Brahm

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Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor. The film is based on the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection Limehouse Nights (1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film Broken Blossoms (1919) starring Lillian Gish. Plot A Chinese missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father. Cast Dolly Haas as Lucy Burrows Emlyn Williams as Chen Arthur Margetson as Battling Burrows C. V. France as High Priest Basil Radford as Mr. Reed Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reed Ernest Jay as Alf Bertha Belmore as Daisy Gibb McLaughlin as Evil Eye Ernest Sefton as Manager Donald Calthrop as Old Chinaman Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Lossy Kenneth Villiers as Missionary Dorothy Minto as Woman Sam Wilkinson as Guide Jerry Verno as Bert

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Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor. The film is based on the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection Limehouse Nights (1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film Broken Blossoms (1919) starring Lillian Gish. Plot A Chinese missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father. Cast Dolly Haas as Lucy Burrows Emlyn Williams as Chen Arthur Margetson as Battling Burrows C. V. France as High Priest Basil Radford as Mr. Reed Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reed Ernest Jay as Alf Bertha Belmore as Daisy Gibb McLaughlin as Evil Eye Ernest Sefton as Manager Donald Calthrop as Old Chinaman Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Lossy Kenneth Villiers as Missionary Dorothy Minto as Woman Sam Wilkinson as Guide Jerry Verno as Bert

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