Bits of Life

Bits of Life — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Marshall Neilan

Bits of Life — Cast

Wesley Barry Tom Levitt, a boy Rockliffe Fellowes Tom Levitt Lon Chaney Chin Chow Noah Beery Hindoo Anna May Wong Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife John Bowers Dentist's Patient Edythe Chapman