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.
| Release Date | September 26, 1921 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Bits of Life | |
| Runtime | 1h 0min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | — | |
| Original Language | English | |
| Production Countries | United States of America | |
| Production Companies | Marshall Neilan Productions | |