Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
Rating: 7.7
Despite the racist connotations of the title and the references to the Chinese man as Chinky, given the historical context this film conveys a lot of sentimentality towards his character, while portraying the prejudice white man as the villain. Broken Blossoms was one of the first films to explore the taboo idea of inter-racial love. Griffith purveys his array of talents by composing a tragic yet simplistic story as opposed to another lavish epic which he has now become most well known for.
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