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, James Flood, William J. Scully

Cast: Wesley Barry, Rockliffe Fellowes, Lon Chaney, Noah Beery, Anna May Wong, John Bowers, Edythe Chapman

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.