"TWO MONTHS LATERPeter was still hopeful that he would be called by Happy or Stark for his "next mission.Some of the film""s posters exclaimed the tagline:It shouts and sings with life...explodes with love!The introductions of the film""s five main characters in the Nevada desert revealed that three were also ""misfit"" cowboys who had failed family relationships (for various reasons) in their lives.This silent film tells the story of a mystical, fragile romance in London""s foggy slums between a young, gentle, opium-addicted Chinese man (Cheng Huan) and an illegitimate Cockney waif (Lillian Gish), who is abused and ultimately killed by her brutish, bigoted prize-fighting father.In voice-over, Mildred first explains the end of the business (real-estate) relationship between Bert and Wally, and how she was always a traditional home-maker wife in her early 30s.Director Charles Vidor lavished admiration on her in this film, helping her to reach her apotheosis as the reigning Hollywood 40s love goddess with this immortal role.