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Bits of Life

Bits of Life

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 26, 1921

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Bits of Life

Production Companies

Marshall Neilan Productions

Director

Marshall Neilan

Description

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.