D.W. Griffith — Playwright (84)

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伊诺克·阿登 (1915)
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other title: Enoch Arden
Based on a summary in a film magazine, Enoch, Annie, and Walter grow up as friends. Later, Annie decides to marry Enoch, but Walter, though bitter about the decision, remains their friend. Enoch and Annie have two children. Then business takes Enoch on a sailing voyage, which he states will take less than one year, and he asks Walter to look over his family while he is gone. Enoch does not return, and Walter dutifully cares after Enoch's wife and children. After ten years word comes of a wreck seen in the Pacific, and everyone believes Enoch has died. Walter and Annie then marry. One night a stranger comes to the house and through a window sees Walter, Annie, and the children happy. The stranger, who is Enoch, finds an old woman who tells him what happened. Enoch tells her to keep his secret, and then leaves. He later dies with a smile on his face.

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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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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 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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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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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
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other title: 跃鱼奇案
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with "Leaping Fishes", and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the "fish blower" girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl ?

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
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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 Country Doctor (1909)
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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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The Fall of Babylon (1919)
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other title: 巴比伦亡国记
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.

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The Avenging Conscience (1914)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 亨利·B·沃斯奥 / 斯波蒂斯伍德·艾特肯 …
other title: 复仇之心 / Thou Shalt Not Kill …
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.

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狂野比尔 (2019)
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安妮·格里芬 / 约翰·哈德威克 … actor: 罗伯·劳 / 布朗温·詹姆斯 …
英国itv罪案连续剧《狂野比尔》,讲述功成名就的美国警察比尔·希克森(Bill Hixon,罗伯·劳Robert Low饰)不远万里来到英格兰港口城市波士顿,出任烫手山芋东林肯郡警察局局长的故事经历。 比尔需要在英国政府削减当局10%财政预算的同时,将辖区内犯罪率也降低10%。然而随着一起十年悬案浮出水面,人生地不熟的他在古董装备技术和陈年旧案面前一筹莫展,难以融入校园的12岁女儿更是让他饱受困扰。

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1913)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 艾尔默·布斯 / 丽莲·吉许 …
other title: 佩吉巷的火枪手 / Cœur d'apache …
A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement with an ailing grandmother. The husband leaves to sell his violin to provide for his wife and grandmother. On his return, he is robbed by a neighborhood gangster. Sometime later in a dance hall, the same gangster gets in an argument with a rival gangster over the musician's wife. the argument foments into a shoot out in Pig Alley. The husband happens upon the melee, recognizing the crook who robbed him. Can the husband retrieve his money?

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Orphans of the Storm (1921)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 丽莲·吉许 / 多萝西·吉许 …
other title: 暴风雨中的孤儿 / Zwei Waisen im Sturm …
Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love. The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy with the equally corrupt Robespierre. De Vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and Henriette for harboring him. Will revolutionary hero Danton, the only voice for mercy in the new regime, be able to save them from the guillotine?

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Edgar Allen Poe (1909)
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大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Herbert Yost / Linda Arvidson …
other title: 埃德加·爱伦·坡 / Edgar Allan Poe …
Short, seven-minute film on the life of Poe (Herbert Yost) sees the author suffering as the woman he loves his slowly dying. Poe goes out to try and sale his stories but ends up getting rejected. You'll notice that the writers name is misspelled in the title and according to the notes on the DVD, historians believed this was the fault of Biograph who rushed this out to capture crowds on the celebration of Poe's centenary birthday. As for the film, it's pretty good as long as you know what not to expect. Those expecting a full bio will be disappointed but Griffith handles the seven-minutes pretty well and delivers a quick and by the numbers picture. Yost does a very good job as Poe and what's shocking is how much they look alike.

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Way Down East (1920)
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★ 8.0 15 ratings
大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 丽莲·吉许 / 理查德·巴塞尔梅斯 …
other title: 一路向东 / 赖婚 …
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

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A Corner in Wheat (1910)
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★ 8.1 9 ratings
other title: 小麦的囤积 / Der Weizenkönig …
A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues to contrast the ironic differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit. Summary written by James Meek {[email protected]}