D.W. Griffith — Director (100)
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Judith of Bethulia (1914) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Judith of Bethulia
director: 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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An Unseen Enemy (1912) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
An Unseen Enemy
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 丽莲·吉许 / 多萝西·吉许 …
other title: 看不见的敌人 / L'Invisible Ennemi …
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) [Movie] Douban
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
director: D.W. Griffith actor: 梅·马什 / Leslie Loveridge …
other title: 艾德布许峡谷之战
Drunken red Indians carouse in pagan revelry, whipping up their appetite for dog meat. In search of supper, a party of Indians attempts to kidnap the pets of some nearby pioneers. The settlers shoot the Indians which instigates a war. Will the isolated town of settlers survive the onslaught of the savages long enough for the cavalry to arrive? Written by Thomas McWilliams <[email protected]>
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The Unchanging Sea (1910) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Unchanging Sea
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Arthur V. Johnson / Linda Arvidson …
other title: 不变的大海
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
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The Sunbeam (1916) [Movie] Douban
The Sunbeam
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 伊内斯·西伯利 / 凯特·布鲁斯 …
other title: 一束阳光
Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the quarentine sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
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The Country Doctor (1909) [Movie] Douban
The Country Doctor
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Mary Pickford
other title: 乡村医生
Dr. Harcourt's daughter, Edith, falls sick. While treating her, the doctor is summoned to the sickbed of a poor neighbor's daughter who is also gravely ill. The doctor is torn between his duty, and concern for his own daughter's welfare. Duty wins out and he rushes to the bedside of the neighbor's child, promising his distraught wife that he will return home as soon as possible. He finds the child near death. Meanwhile, Edith takes a turn for the worse and a servant is sent to bring him home. Dr. Harcourt is faced with the dilemma of returning to save his own child, or staying to save another. He stays. When the neighbor's child is out of danger, he returns home to find that his own daughter has died.
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Enoch Arden: Part I (1916) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Enoch Arden
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Wilfred Lucas / Linda Arvidson …
other title: 艾诺克·雅顿 / Enoch Arden
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
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The New York Hat (1912) [Movie] Douban
The New York Hat
director: D.W. Griffith actor: 玛丽·碧克馥 / 莱昂纳尔·巴里摩尔 …
other title: 纽约帽子
When Mrs. Harding dies, she leaves a mysterious letter to her pastor. The note tells how her cold, miserly husband worked her to death. She asks the pastor to administer a small trust which she has bequeathed her daughter so that the girl might enjoy some finery which her father has always denied her. The village milliner carries the latest hat styles from New York, one of which has caught the girl's fancy. The pastor, loyal to the dying mother's wishes, buys the young lady the hat. Soon gossip spreads through the village...