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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living with her abusive prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop.
Holiday: An iconoclastic young man engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
Only angels have wings: Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government...