D.W. Griffith — Director (181)
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Death's Marathon (1915)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Blanche Sweet / Lionel Barrymore
other title: 生死时速 / La maratón de la muerte …
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
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The Fugitive (1910)
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DW Griffith actor: 凯特·布鲁斯 / 爱德华·狄龙 …
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.
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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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Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Carol Dempster / Neil Hamilton …
other title: 生活不是很美好吗？ / Ist das Leben nicht wunderbar …
A Polish family, left homeless in the wake of World War I, move to Germany and struggle to survive during the Great Inflation. War orphan Inga has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to wed Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and serves as their symbol of optimism.
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The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Adolphe Menjou / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: 魔鬼下凡 / Las tristezas de Satán …
Geoffrey Tempest is desperately in love with aspiring writer Mavis Claire, a tenant of his boardinghouse. Unable to marry her due to his poverty, in his anger, he curses God for abandoning him. Soon, Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he's inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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The White Rose (1923)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Mae Marsh / 卡罗尔·戴姆斯特 …
other title: 白玫瑰 / La Rose blanche
Wealthy young Southern aristocrat Joseph graduates from seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, goes out and see what 'the real world' is all about. His meetings with a young woman he believes to be more worldly than she is soon cause ruin for all involved.
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A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
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D.W. Griffith actor: Lillian Gish
other title: 幸福山谷里的浪漫 / Le roman de la vallée heureuse …
John Logan leaves bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. His parents and his sweetheart become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns wealthy. However, his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly-arrived 'stranger' for his money.
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An Unseen Enemy (1912)
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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)
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D.W. Griffith actor: 梅·马什 / Leslie Loveridge …
other title: 艾德布许峡谷之战 / Die Schlacht von Elderbush Gulch …
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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D.W. Griffith actor: 玛丽·碧克馥 / 莱昂纳尔·巴里摩尔 …
other title: 纽约帽子 / Le Chapeau de New York
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...
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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.