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.
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> 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)