The read
It runs a compact 1h 0m.
Synopsis
This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Chinese father and a white mother is sold into slavery by his father. The boy becomes a criminal and a cunning but cruel thief. The one time he stops to help a lady in distress he is thrown in jail. Wesley Barry is the young boy and Lon Chaney the grown-up criminal.
Ratings
TMDB10/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Marshall NeilanDirector
- James FloodDirector
- Lucita SquierScreenplay
- William J. ScullyDirector
Cast
- Wesley BarryTom Levitt, a boy
- Rockliffe FellowesTom Levitt
- Lon ChaneyChin Chow
- Noah BeeryHindoo
- Anna May WongToy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
- John BowersDentist's Patient
- Edythe ChapmanCast
Stills
Themes
anthologylost film