One of the most beautifully photographed films of all time, which we will be showing in a color-tinted print taken from the Museum of Modern Art's 35mm Nitrate, (DID NOT SHOW THIS PRINT after all--showed David Shepard's 16mm tinted print) and with a newly restored orchestral score. Broken Blossoms is D.W. Griffith's broken hearted farewell to the flower of femininity (as personified by Lillian Gish) destroyed by a changing, sordid world. Set in the Limehouse district of London, it is the story of a waterfront waif who escapes a tyrannical father by turning to the chaste love of an idealistic “Chinaman” (played by Richard Barthelmess).