The above verdict was passed by the not easily impressed Rachel Low, and Julius Hagen's fanciful remake of the Griffith classic - while yet another step in Hagen's headlong plunge into bankruptcy - looks good today precisely because it's so old-fashioned. (David Lean had worked at Twickenham Films during the early thirties, and this film probably influenced his equally stylised Dickens adaptations, particularly the cutaway to a shot of a door banging against a sapling when Battling Burrows takes a whip to Lucy.
According to Halliwell it was originally intended that D W Griffiths would direct this film.Sadly he didn't.
Like the BROKEN BLOSSOMS of a trampled rose, the pure affection between two unutterably lonely people is destroyed by evil & hatred. rw1051177 ApolloBoy109 "Aloha, Scooby-Doo!
When i see "Broken Blossoms" i remember all the injustices of the world, now and before. Then i feel delighted and very happy.
The subjects this film deals with are ugly, but the whole thing is done in a beautiful way.
Accablé de clichés risibles et de lenteurs excessives, "Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl/Le lys brisé" n'est pas un bon film ou une uvre importante, même si l'image est globalement soignée.
D.W.
Broken Blossoms is arguably the best film that D. W.
This film touched me deeply; I was so attracted by the character played by Gish, and affected for days by her fabulous acting. I saw this as a young teen, and I was "taught" by it how fine a film can be.
