Bits of Life

Overview

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.

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