Bits of Life (1921)

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: 1921-09-26
• Runtime: 1h 0min
• Directors: Marshall Neilan, James Flood, William J. Scully.
• Writer: Lucita Squier