Bits of Life (1921)
60 min
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.
- Release date
- September 26, 1921
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Wesley Barry as Tom Levitt, a boy
- Rockliffe Fellowes as Tom Levitt
- Lon Chaney as Chin Chow
- Noah Beery as Hindoo
- Anna May Wong as Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
- John Bowers as Dentist's Patient
- Teddy Sampson
- Dorothy Mackaill
- Edythe Chapman
- Frederick Burton
Crew
- James Flood · Director
- Marshall Neilan · Director
- William J. Scully · Director
- Thomas McMorrow · Writer
- Marshall Neilan · Writer
- Lucita Squier · Writer
- Walter Trumbull · Writer
- Marshall Neilan · Producer
- Ray June · Cinematographer
- David Kesson · Cinematographer