Bits of Life

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 26, 1921

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Marshall Neilan Productions

Cast

Rockliffe Fellowes,Lon Chaney,Wesley Barry,Anna May Wong,Noah Beery,John Bowers,Edythe Chapman

Director

William J. Scully,Marshall Neilan,James Flood

Writer

Lucita Squier,Marshall Neilan,Hugh Wiley,Walter Trumbull,Thomas McMorrow

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0011972