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Richard Barthelmess - what members say


  • Broken Blossoms
  • Broken Blossoms review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
    Rated - 3.0 stars Broken Blossoms 27 May 2008
    ...d in front of a locked off camera. There's also the issue of the performances. Richard Barthelmess is particularly pantomimic as Cheng Yuan (and appears to have won his role at a...   Read customer review
  • Way Down East
  • Way Down East review by Luke1971 from Sunbury-on-Thames
    Rated - 4.0 stars very watchable for 1920 9 February 2009
    ...urs... Well Way Down East is a joy to watch in comparison.. Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess are superb.. if you have an afternoon free... sit back, relax and enjoy an e...   Read customer review

Richard Barthelmess - filmography


  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Only Angels Have Wings on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Jean Arthur,  Richard Barthelmess
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' macho mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,103 member
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  • Way Down East
  • Way Down East (1920)
    Starring: Lillian Gish,  Richard Barthelmess,  Lowell Sherman
    Director: D.W. Griffith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Innocent Anna (Lillian Gish, in a terrific performance) is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston, where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel (Lowell Sherman). When she becomes pregnant, he abandons her; later, the baby dies. Now a social ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 251 members
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  • Broken Blossoms
  • Broken Blossoms on DVD (1919)
    Starring: Lillian Gish,  Donald Crisp,  Richard Barthelmess
    Director: D.W. Griffith
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An ideological Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed "sons ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 505 members
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Richard Barthelmess facts

5 most recent films

Only Angels Have Wings - 3.5 stars
Way Down East - 3.5 stars
Broken Blossoms - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Only Angels Have Wings - 3.5 stars
Way Down East - 3.5 stars
Broken Blossoms - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Broken Blossoms - 3.0 stars
Way Down East - 3.5 stars
Only Angels Have Wings - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lillian Gish - 4 times - show films
Florence Short - 2 times - show films
Ernest Butterworth - 2 times - show films
Lowell Sherman - 2 times - show films
Wilbur Higby - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

D.W. Griffith - 4 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 1 times - show films

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