Broken Blossoms | |
Director: | John Brahm |
Based On: | Limehouse Nights |
Starring: | Arthur Margetson Emlyn Williams Basil Radford Dolly Haas |
Music: | Karol Rathaus |
Cinematography: | Curt Courant Hal Young |
Editing: | Ralph Kemplen |
Studio: | Twickenham Studios |
Distributor: | Twickenham Film Distributors Ltd (UK) Imperial Distributing Corporation (US) Haussmann Films (France) |
Runtime: | 78 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
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.[1]
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.
A Chinese Buddhist missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father.