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.
Wesley Barry
Tom Levitt, a boy
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
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.
A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
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A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
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