Broken Blossoms (1936 film)

1936 British film by John Brahm

Broken Blossoms

Directed by| John Brahm
Written by| Emlyn Williams
Based on| Limehouse Nights
Produced by| Julius Hagen by Thomas Burke
Starring| Arthur Margetson
Emlyn Williams
Basil Radford
Dolly Haas
Cinematography| Curt Courant
Hal Young
Edited by| Ralph Kemplen
Music by| Karol Rathaus

Production
company

Twickenham Studios

Distributed by| Twickenham Film Distributors Ltd (UK) Imperial Distributing Corporation (US)
Haussmann Films (France)

Release dates

* 20 May 1936 (1936-05-20) (UK)
* 13 January 1937 (1937-01-13) (US)

Running time

| 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.

## Plot

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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.

## Cast

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ BFI Database entry

## External links

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* Broken Blossoms at IMDb
* Broken Blossoms at the BFI's Screenonline

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Films directed by John Brahm

* Broken Blossoms (1936)
* Counsel for Crime (1937)
* Penitentiary (1938)
* Girls' School (1938)
* Let Us Live (1939)
* Rio (1939)
* Escape to Glory (1940)
* Wild Geese Calling (1941)
* The Undying Monster (1942)
* Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
* Wintertime (1943)
* The Lodger (1944)
* Guest in the House (1944)
* Hangover Square (1945)
* The Locket (1946)
* The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
* Singapore (1947)
* Siren of Atlantis (1949, uncredited)
* The Thief of Venice (1950)
* The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
* Face to Face (1952)
* The Diamond Queen (1953)
* The Mad Magician (1954)
* The Golden Plague (1954)
* Special Delivery (1955)
* Bengazi (1955)
* Hot Rods to Hell (1967)

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