Bits of Life

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.

Director

Marshall Neilan

Screenplay

Lucita Squier

Director

James Flood

Director

William J. Scully

Status

Released

Release date

26/09/1921

Original language

English