Broken Blossoms (1936) - DVD

Lucy's miserable life is devoid of beauty, and she is constantly beaten by her father, an alcoholic boxer. In the same hopeless slum, a recent Chinese immigrant who runs an import shop helplessly watches the waif's struggle. When Lucy's father thrashes her within an inch of her life, the shopkeeper takes her in and nurses her back to health. As her condition improves, Lucy begins to show a new interest in life, thanks to all the beauty

D.W. Griffith's tragic tale of a frail girl named Lucy who befriends a sensitive Chinese immigrant in London's seedy Limehouse District is generally regarded as one of the greatest films of the silent era. Starring Lillian Gish as Lucy, Richard Barthelmess as the Chinese man, and Donald Crisp as Lucy's brutal father, this quiet little film still manages to be shocking and heartbreaking nearly a century after it was first shown.

Nervously pacing a hospital room floor, young medical intern Robert Morley (Randolph Scott) is grief-stricken when he learns that his wife has died during childbirth. Wanting nothing to do with his son, the tormented new father leaves the baby with relatives and travels abroad to complete his studies. Returning home six years later, Robert is now a successful physician engaged to a beautiful debutante (Martha Sleeper). Trouble brews whe