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A Smoked Husband (1908)
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D.W. Griffith actor: John R. Cumpson / Florence Lawrence …
After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
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Fools of Fate (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: James Kirkwood / Marion Leonard …
Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than her lot. She reasons: "Have I not youth and beauty and attainments far above this environment? Why should I be compelled to toil and struggle in this wilderness?"
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Nursing a Viper (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Arthur V. Johnson / Marion Leonard …
During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon forces his attentions on the wife. Hearing their struggle, the husband intervenes and, stripping the aristocrat of his disguise, thrusts him outdoors to be killed by the mob.
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Wilful Peggy (1910)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Mary Pickford / Clara T. Bracy …
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy.
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The Redman's View (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Owen Moore / Lottie Pickford …
other title: The Red Man's View / インディアンの考え
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
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Her First Biscuits (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: John R. Cumpson / Florence Lawrence …
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
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The Necklace (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Rose King / Herbert Prior …
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to replace it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but the Kendricks never learns the truth; Husband and wife struggle for years to pay off the huge debt.
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The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Mary Pickford / Owen Moore …
A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him.
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
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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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The Sealed Room (1909)
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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 Life of General Villa (1914)
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克里斯蒂·卡本纳 Christy Cabanne actor: Pancho Villa Pancho Villa / 拉乌尔·沃尔什 Raoul Walsh …
other title: 比利亚将军的生平
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Judith of Bethulia (1914)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 布兰彻·斯薇特 / 亨利·B·沃斯奥 …
other title: 伯图里亚的朱迪斯 / 贝斯利亚女王 …
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.
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Faithful (1910)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Arthur V. Johnson / Mack Sennett …
other title: Fidelidad
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and buys him a new suit of clothes. The naively innocent Faithful reads too much into this gesture, and he begins to follow his benefactor everywhere, expecting to receive future gifts.