Broken Blossoms is a 1919 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, adapted from a short story by Thomas Burke, following a Chinese immigrant in London's Limehouse district who befriends and shelters a young woman abused by her prizefighter father. The film was notable for its intimate, small-scale production and its heavy use of diffused, atmospheric lighting and tinted film stock to create a somber visual mood, a departure from the large-scale spectacle of Griffith's earlier The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. Broken Blossoms was a commercial and critical success on release and is regarded as an early landmark of visual style and mood in narrative filmmaking, though modern critics have also noted its use of yellowface casting in the lead role as characteristic of the era's racial attitudes.
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Why is Broken Blossoms linked to United Artists?
It was the first film United Artists distributed.
Broken Blossoms was the first film distributed by United Artists. It was originally made for Famous Players-Lasky, which sold it to the newly founded United Artists for 250,000 dollars. The film then proved a hit at the box office and earned a profit of 700,000 dollars. It premiered on May 13, 1919.
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Broken Blossoms is a 1919 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, adapted from a short story by Thomas Burke, following a Chinese immigrant in London's Limehouse district who befriends and shelters a young woman abused by her prizefighter father.
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
In Group: Early American Feature Films, 1913 to 1919, Lead
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by D.
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