]Just one year after playing catcher "Crash" Davis inBull Durham (1988), Kevin Costner appeared in this second sports film - another baseball-themed pro-Americana film coupled with the religious themes of faith and redemption.And as Harry died, the two also forgave each other - reestablishing themselves as ""best friends"".The film concluded with Harry""s funeral, and the reacquaintance of Peter with Mary Jane in her Jazz Club after she sang: "I""m Thru With Love," by an extended embrace.BackgroundBroken Blossoms(1919) is director D.W.Griffith""s most tragic, serious, poetic, intricate, and melodramatic film.Griffith, considered the first master of feature film directors, made his powerful screen masterpiece.Evelyn described the Hom-Dai Egyptian curse "reserved only for the most evil of blasphemers." It was never used because it was so highly feared: "If a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise, he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt.] The racist, pious minister ReverendJohnson(Liam Dunn) laments the troubles of the town - "sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped.