Classics of the silent screen (1959)

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Lillian Gish gave an unforgettable performance as the waif of the slums who found in the Chinese boy her only true friend. matching every mood and nuance. Audiences that see this film in its rare public viewing today almost invariably see a black-and-white print, which is tantamount to seeing but a pale shadow of what the film originally was. In black and white the tenderness and beauty fade, the ugliness and sheer melodrama are strengthened. The film's whole balance is thus shifted. But in its original form the film still weaves that same magic spell that Griffith— and Lillian Gish— gave it in 1919. 26