Film by D.W. Griffith (1919)
1h30
With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard
In a suburb of London, a young girl, martyred by a violent and racist father, befriends a caring and delicate Chinese immigrant.
From flashbacks to jump cuts, a whole cinematic grammar is put at the service of the forbidden love story between two characters rejected by society (Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess, in their finest roles). An intimate drama, which will inspire Kubrick for the axe scene in Shining.