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.
| Writing | Lucita Squier | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hugh Wiley | Story |
| Writing | Thomas McMorrow | Story |
| Directing | James Flood | Director |
| Directing | William J. Scully | Director |
| Directing | Marshall Neilan | Director |
| Writing | Marshall Neilan | Story |
| Writing | Walter Trumbull | Story |
