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.
William J. Scully | Director |
Marshall Neilan | Director |
James Flood | Director |
Lucita Squier | Screenplay |
Thomas McMorrow | Story |
Marshall Neilan | Story |
Hugh Wiley | Story |
Walter Trumbull | Story |