Broken Blossoms

Following an opening establishing a "Chinese Treaty Port," D.W. Griffith introduces his maybe-protagonist, "The Yellow Man" (Richard Barthelmess), getting square with his deity before his trip to the West, in Broken Blossoms, 1919.

Following the introduction of co-star Richard Barthelmess as "The Yellow Man," orphan Lucy (Lillian Gish) is positioned in dire circumstances in London, her adopted father (Donald Crisp) much of the problem, in D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, 1919.