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Bits of Life (1921)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 1H 0M

Director : William J. Scully, Marshall Neilan, James Flood
Writer : Lucita Squier

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Wesley Barry
Wesley Barry
Tom Levitt, a boy
Rockliffe Fellowes
Rockliffe Fellowes
Tom Levitt
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
Chin Chow
Noah Beery
Noah Beery
Hindoo
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong
Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
John Bowers
John Bowers
Dentist's Patient
Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman

Crews

William J. Scully
William J. Scully
Director
Marshall Neilan
Marshall Neilan
Director
James Flood
James Flood
Director
Lucita Squier
Lucita Squier
Screenplay
Thomas McMorrow
Thomas McMorrow
Story
Marshall Neilan
Marshall Neilan
Story
Hugh Wiley
Hugh Wiley
Story
Walter Trumbull
Walter Trumbull
Story

Posters and backgrounds

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