Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Wesley Barry
Tom Levitt, a boy
Lead
Rockliffe Fellowes
Tom Levitt
Lon Chaney
Chin Chow
Noah Beery
Hindoo
Anna May Wong
Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
John Bowers
Dentist's Patient
Edythe Chapman
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What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. William J. Scully's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Bits of Life is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
