Broken Blossoms (1936 film)

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.

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.

• 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

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

• 1936 films
• 1936 drama films
• Films directed by John Brahm
• Films based on short fiction
• Films based on works by Thomas Burke
• British drama films
• British black-and-white films
• Films set in London
• British remakes of American films
• Sound film remakes of silent films
• 1930s English-language films
• 1930s British films
• Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
• English-language drama films
• Films scored by Karol Rathaus
• 1930s British film stubs

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