D.W. Griffith — Director (170)
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909) WikiData IMDb TMDB
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Owen Moore / James Kirkwood …
other title: The Hessian Renegades
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.
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Lena and the Geese (1912) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lena and the Geese
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Mary Pickford / J. Jiquel Lanoe …
other title: The Goose Girl
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".
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Lady of the Pavements (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Lady von der Straße
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lupe Vélez / William Boyd …
other title: Die Lady von der Straße / 鳳閣情鴛 …
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
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The Battle (1911) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Battle
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles West / Blanche Sweet …
other title: ザ・バトル
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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For His Son (1912) WikiData IMDb TMDB
For His Son
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles Hill Mailes / Charles West …
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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Ramona (1910) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ramona
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Mary Pickford / Henry B. Walthall …
other title: ラモーナ / 라모나
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
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The Sealed Room (1909) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sealed Room
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Arthur V. Johnson / Marion Leonard …
other title: 密室
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
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The Mothering Heart (1913) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Mothering Heart
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lillian Gish / Walter Miller
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
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After Many Years (1908) IMDb Douban
After Many Years
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 弗洛伦丝·劳伦斯
A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?