Lancaster had earlier played a similar manipulative huckster in the filmThe Rainmaker (1956).The film was very popular and a box-office hit - on a budget of $3 million, it grossed $11.3 million dollars.It was shot in the uncharacteristic and unfashionable aspect ratio of 1.33, in protest to the current prevailing trend for CinemaScope features.The film was nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Score (Andre Previn)) and won three: Best Actor for Burt Lancaster (his sole Oscar win of four Best Actor nominations), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks), and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones with her sole Oscar nomination, known for her squeaky-clean role in TV""sThe Partridge Family).The second marker was entombed with the knight""s dead brother, and it was believed that the tomb was located in the city of Venice.Plot SynopsisThe film, titled Broken Blossoms, and subtitled "The Yellow Man and the Girl," introduces the allegorical nature of its three main protagonists in its cast list - an innocent, an idealist, and a strongman brute:Lucy, The Girl (23 year-old Lillian Gish as a 15 year-old girl)The Yellow Man (Richard Barthelmess, a Caucasian actor playing a Chinese character)Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp)The minor characters include the Evil Eye (Edward Peil), The Spying One (George Beranger), and a Prizefighter (Norman Selby).Debbie tells her Uncle Ethan that Lucy is wearing the gold locket that he gave her when she was a little girl, and she would like one too: ".