Bits of Life
Cast & Crew
Marshall Neilan
Wesley Barry
Rockliffe Fellowes
Lon Chaney
Noah Beery
Anna May Wong
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Episode 1: The Bad Samaritan. Tom Levitt, half-breed son of a Chinese and a white woman, is the victim of brutality during his boyhood and becomes a criminal. A friend, released from jail, tells Tom he is going straight and asks for money to leave town; Tom takes a stolen wallet from another boy. After hearing a preacher tell the story of the Good Samaritan, he goes to aid a man who has been assaulted; facing a ten-year sentence for robbery, he reflects on the irony of his downfall. Episode 2: The Man Who Heard Everything. Ed Johnson, who barely makes a living from barbering, is deaf, but he is happy in the belief that the world is good and that he is loved by his wife. Coming into possession of an instrument that restores his hearing, he learns that the persons he has idolized are not to be trusted and that his wife is unfaithful; in despair, he destroys the instrument. Episode 3: Hop. As a boy in China, Chin Gow learns that girl infants are undesirable. When a man, he becomes proprietor of several San Francisco opium dens and weds Toy Sing, who bears him a baby girl. Chin Gow beats his wife and vows to slay the child. His wife's friend brings in a crucifix sent by the priest, and as he nails it to the wall, the spike penetrates the skull of Chin Gow lying in a bunk on the other side of the wall and kills him. Episode 4: The Intrigue. On a yachting tour of the world, Reginald Vandebrook, reaching a foreign country, falls in love with a girl he has never seen before; he hears her called Princess and follows her into a building. There he is surrounded by East Indians who are about to murder him. He awakens to find himself in a dentist's chair having a tooth extracted.
Director
Marshall Neilan
Cast
Wesley Barry
Rockliffe Fellowes
Lon Chaney
Noah Beery
Anna May Wong
John Bowers
Teddy Sampson
Dorothy Mackaill
Edythe Chapman
Frederick Burton
James Bradbury Jr.
Tammany Young
Harriet Hammond
James Neill
Scott Welsh
Crew
Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
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Notes
The film was prefaced by a message from Mr. Neilan explaining the reasons for producing it and introducing the characters of each story. Some sources also attribute "The Bad Samaritan," by Thomas McMorrow as an additional literary source, however, its relation to the film has not been established.
