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Bits of Life (1921)

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.
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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.

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Genre:Drama
Directed By:Marshall Neilan, James Flood, William J. Scully
Written By:Lucita Squier
In Theaters:9/26/1921
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Runtime:60 minutes
Studio:Marshall Neilan Productions

Cast

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Marshall Neilan, James Flood, William J. Scully

Director

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Wesley Barry

Tom Levitt, a boy

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Rockliffe Fellowes

Tom Levitt

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Lon Chaney

Chin Chow

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Noah Beery

Hindoo

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Anna May Wong

Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife

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John Bowers

Dentist's Patient

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Edythe Chapman

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