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Film di D.w. Griffith
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The Struggle
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.6/10
Il cavaliere della libertà
Nato da una famiglia di boscaioli, Abraham Lincoln è un giovane intraprendente: si laurea in legge, diventa avvocato e comincia a occuparsi con passione di politica. La sua carriera è rapidissima, fino all'elezione alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti alla vigilia della guerra civile. Lincoln riesce a porre termine al conflitto e a tenere unita la nazione, ma proprio quando tutto sembra risolto viene ucciso in un attentato.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
The prelude to our picture is the record of an intimate conversation between Mr. D. W. Griffith and his friend Mr. Walter Huston, which occured on an evening in the Spring of 1930. Here for the first time, Mr. Griffith relates the colorful childhood experiences which led him to the making of "The Birth of a Nation."
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10
La canzone del cuore
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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.6/10
La battaglia dei sessi
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.9/10
La legge dell'amore
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
L'angoscia di Satana
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of 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 has 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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.2/10
L'uragano
Joan Royle, bella ma ingenua modella nata nei bassifondi, si innamora di Fred Ketlar, il capo di un'orchestra da ballo. Quando la moglie di Fred, Adele, viene assassinata, Fred viene arrestato e condannato per il delitto. Joan crede che il vero assassino sia Baretta, un gangster che aveva Adele come sua amante.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
Zingaresca
Sally è vissuta sempre nell'ambiente del circo, allevata da McGargle al quale l'aveva affidata sua madre prima di morire. La donna, sposatasi con un artista circense, era stata a causa di quel matrimonio diseredata dal padre, il giudice Foster. Sally, ormai giovane donna, incontra e si innamora di Peyton Lennox, un ricco rampollo figlio di un amico del giudice. Anche se la signora Foster protegge la ragazza, Sally va a finire in carcere, accusata per gioco illegale mentre McGargle riesce a scappare. Il severo Foster sta per giudicare la ragazza quando McGargle ritorna per evitare alla sua protetta la condanna. Foster viene così a conoscenza del fatto che Sally è sua nipote: la ragazza verrà accolta in famiglia e McGargle potrà restare con lei.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
Non è una bella vita
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
La rosa bianca
Il giovane Joseph discende da un'aristocratica famiglia del sud; ha studiato in seminario e ora dovrebbe assumere il suo incarico religioso. Prima, però, vuole vedere anche il "mondo reale" in modo da servire al meglio la sua congregazione. Si reca a New Orleans e lì conosce Bessie, una ragazza povera e poco sofisticata. I due sono attratti uno dall'altra ma, lui, pensando alla carriera, lascia Bessie che, poco dopo, scopre di essere incinta. La giovane lascia il suo lavoro, cresce il bambino e va alla ricerca di Joseph. Quando lo incontra, però, scopre che questi, ormai, è impegnato con quella che era la fidanzatina della sua infanzia.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.1/10
Notte agitata
Una giovane ragazza orfana, che viene corteggiata da un anziano ricco e sgradevole che vive con la madre adottiva, si innamora di un giovane conosciuto a una festa. Un gruppo di contrabbandieri clandestini rubano i risparmi nascosti in casa; nella fuga uno di loro viene ucciso, e il sospettato numero uno è proprio il ragazzo della festa.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Le due orfanelle
Francia, alla vigilia della rivoluzione francese. Henriette e Louise sono cresciute insieme come sorelle. Quando la peste che toglie la vita ai loro genitori causa la cecità di Louise, decidono di viaggiare a Parigi in cerca di una cura, ma vengono separati quando un aristocratico libidinoso incrocia il loro cammino.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
Amore d'altri tempi
La storia è ambientata a Londra, nel quartiere cinese. Tre uomini entrano in competizione per conquistare una bella ballerina. Uno dei tre, per averla, cerca di rapirla.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
Agonia sui ghiacci
Anna, giunta in città per trovare un lavoro, ha l'ingenuità e la bontà della gente di campagna. Si sposa con un uomo senza scrupoli che la pianta in breve tempo. Come ricordo le lascia un figlio che vive solo alcuni giorni. Riesce ad avere la protezione della famiglia di David, un bravo giovane che finisce con l'amarla e a salvarla, in seguito, da un gesto disperato.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.0/10
Il fiore dell'isola
Un uomo uccide l'amante della moglie e scappa con la figlia nel Sud Pacifico. Un detective da loro la caccia assieme a un ragazzo, il quale finirà con l'innamorarsi della ragazza.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.2/10
L'idolo danzante
Nelle isole dei Mari del Sud, Mary, una bellissima mulatta cresciuta in un'isola dei Mari del Sud, suscita l'amore di Dan McGuire, uno scarto della società che si è ridotto a diventare un ubriacone. Un giorno, nell'isola giunge Walter Kincaid, il nipote del missionario locale. Il giovane si sente attratto da Mary che lo usa per ingelosire Dan. Lo spirito religioso di Walter colpisce talmente i due innamorati che la ragazza getta in mare il suo idolo di legno e Dan viene indotto a smettere di bere. Mentre tutti gli uomini dell'isola sono fuori per una battuta di pesca, un gruppo di schiavisti attacca il villaggio per catturare le donne. L'unico rimasto è Walter che riesce a chiedere aiuto suonando il tamburo di guerra. Gli indigeni, ritornati di furia indietro, battono i pirati, salvando le donne. Il sacrificio di Walter, ferito a morte, induce Mary e Dan a santificare la loro relazione con un matrimonio cristiano.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
Il grande problema
La giovane Nellie Jarvis, figlia di una coppia di vagabondi, assiste all'omicidio di una donna da parte di un uomo e di sua moglie. Anni dopo, "Little Miss Yes'm", come è conosciuta Nellie, ritorna nella zona da orfana. La gente del posto, il signor e la signora Hilton, sebbene colpiti dalla povertà, la accolgono nella loro famiglia. Pienamente integrata con gli affettuosi Hilton, desidera sollevarli dalle loro difficoltà finanziarie. Nellie si reca in una fattoria vicina per trovare lavoro dal depravato Martin Cain e dalla sua paranoica moglie.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
Per la figlia
Rosy Nell è una ballerina che lavora nei saloon del West. Ha una figlia che ha studiato all'Est e che non sa come la madre si sia procurata il denaro che è servito a farla studiare. Quando la ragazza si reca in visita nella cittadina dove vive la madre, incontra alla stazione il bandito Alvarez che si comporta con cavalleria nei suoi riguardi. Nel frattempo, Nell ha una lite con una rivale, Spasm Sal che, nel corso di una lotta con Nell, cade a terra morta, uccisa da un attacco di cuore. Nell, però, è accusata di averla uccisa e sfugge al linciaggio solo per l'intervento di Alvarez, che la salva. King Bagley, il proprietario del saloon, si mette alla testa di un gruppo di cittadini che vogliono stanare Nell per catturarla. Ancora una volta Alvarez la salva, ma dovrà sfuggire pure lui alla cattura con l'aiuto della sua amante, la fiera Ciquita.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
The Mother and the Law
To recoup losses from the extravagant roadshow presentations of Intolerance (1916), Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's previously interlocked stories as standalone features, with additional footage and new title cards. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers cause ruin to the lives of marginal Americans.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.9/10
The Fall of Babylon
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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Amore sulle labbra
Dramma ambientato nell'America rurale dove Susie è innamorata di William ma nessuno dei due riesce a confessare all'altro i propri sentimenti.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.9/10
Giglio infranto
Chen, maestro spirituale e pacifico divulgatore della dottrina buddista si reca in Inghilterra per diffondere i suoi insegnamenti. Nel corso della sua permanenza londinese incontra Lucy, una ragazza per la quale prova una sincera attrazione, che ha la sfortuna di venire tormentata e maltrattata dal padre, un famoso pugile. E quando Chen interviene durante una delle sfuriate dell'uomo, sottraendo Lucy alle sue percosse, si trova costretto a dover affrontare il desiderio di vendetta del pugile.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.9/10
Le vestali dell'amore
Allo scoppio della prima guerra mondiale due fratelli americani che vivono in Francia si arruolano nell'esercito francese e vanno a combattere in Germania. Entrambi lasciano le rispettive donne, le quali sono la ragione primaria del loro desiderio di tornare a casa.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
Il romanzo della Valle Felice
Il giovane John Logan junior lascia la valle dove è nato e ha vissuto per tentare la fortuna nella grande città, promettendo alla fidanzata di tornare entro un anno. In città, John trova lavoro in una fabbrica di giocattoli dove il padrone gli promette diecimila dollari se riuscirà a costruire una rana che può nuotare. A casa, Jennie, la sua fidanzata segna ogni giorno che passa. Dopo sette anni, John finalmente torna a casa, senza essere riconosciuto. Affitta una camera nella casa dei suoi. Una notte, suo padre, strangolato dai debiti, prossimo a perdere la fattoria, decide di derubare l'uomo in camera di cui ha visto un rotolo di banconote. Tra i due vi è una lotta e Logan pensa di aver ucciso lo sconosciuto. La signora Logan si rende conto che il loro pensionante è il figlio. L'uomo che è stato attaccato è, invece, un rapinatore di banche che si nascondeva lì da loro. John riuscirà a salvare la fattoria, sposandosi poi con Jennie.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.9/10
La fanciulla che cerca amore
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he is soon in love with the little shop girl. Leo is homesick for his native France, but lacks the funds to make the passage. Edward, learning of their plight, sends $1,000 with a note saying that the money is payment for a good deed. Leo accepts the money and he and Jeannette embark at once.
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been taken away. Two officers enter her room and as she struggles to get away she wakes up. Her relief is so great that she puts all her money in Liberty Bonds.
Il grande amore
Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of the American forces that are subsequently to leave for the battlefields of Europe. He begins active training at a camp outside London. While enjoying a few hours of leave, he meets Susie Broadplains , a young woman from Australia. She is flattered by his attentions and their friendship soon blossoms into love. However German plotters plan to destroy an arsenal at night and Sir Roger is inveigled into driving an automobile along a London road with its lights turned skyward to guide the Zeppelins. Jim, wounded and home on furlough, detects Sir Roger on the lonely road, follows and traps him in his cottage. Sir Roger turns his pistol on himself rather than be taken alive. Susie finds the "great love" in service for the cause of democracy and her country, with a greater love in sight.
Cuori del mondo
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Intolerance
Il film intreccia quattro episodi della Storia nell'intento di dimostrare le nefaste conseguenze dell'intolleranza. The Fall of Babilonia: Belshazzar e i babilonesi festeggiano il trionfo. Ma il tradimento dei sacerdoti di Baal consente a Ciro di espugnare la città sguarnita, nonostante la strenua resistenza di alcuni valorosi e della Fanciulla dei Monti. The Passion of Christ: tre momenti, ossia le Nozze di Cana, i farisei contro Gesù, Maddalena. The St. Bartholomew Night: nella Parigi del sedicesimo secolo, Brown Eyes si fidanza con Prosper Latour, mentre un editto della cattolica Caterina de' Medici ordina il massacro della popolazione di fede protestante. The Mother and the Law: un industriale riduce i salari degli operai per finanziare un gruppo di suffragette e reprime duramente lo sciopero che ne consegue. In miseria, uno degli operai entra in contatto con la malavita.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.1/10
Nascita di una nazione
Il sudista Ben Cameron, dopo la vittoria del Nord, fonda il Ku Klux Klan come autodifesa dei bianchi di fronte all'arroganza dei neri. Lo colpisce la tragedia del suicidio della sorella, violentata da un uomo di colore. Grazie a lui, i bianchi riprendono il controllo della situazione, dopodiché Ben potrà sposare l'amata Elsie, appartenente a una famiglia che si era schierata dalla parte dei nordisti. Sorpassato e reazionario nei contenuti, ma opera fondamentale nella storia del cinema: il linguaggio cinematografico dimostra qui di avere raggiunto piena maturità espressiva e Griffith si conquista di diritto il primato tra i padri della nuova arte.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
La coscienza vendicatrice
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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
The Escape
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
Amore di madre
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Brute Force
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets him up as their leader. With the club, he fends off various creatures (a winged lizard, a snake, a dinosaur) and a rival tribe led by Monkeywalk. The women even manage to repel an attack. But the rival tribe discovers the secret of the club themselves, and capture the women. Weakhands, sitting in despair, chances upon a new weapon: the bow and arrow.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.3/10
Donna che ama
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails.
Giuditta di Betulla
L'assedio di Betulia perpetrato dagli assiri è l'evento storico che fa da sfondo a questo film. Giuditta deve uccidere il comandante degli assiri Oloferne. Ci riesce, decapitandolo e portando la sua testa di fronte al giudizio degli anziani. Ma l'avere ucciso un uomo non le dà pace, nonostante il trionfo.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
La battaglia a Elderbush Gulch
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
Madonna of the Storm
The bored clubman sought the excitement of the street. The husband, believing himself neglected for his child, left his home. There in the back saloon seeking shelter from the storm, the two met the demi-monde. The clubman displayed his enticing work of art, when to their surprise a picture of the Madonna and child confronted their view. The storm over, they went forth into the sunshine of the world.
Two Men of the Desert
The young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the men were about to go across the desert, where they had heard rumors of gold. They decided to play square and before going determined to let the coin decide who should ask the young authoress the all-important question. The flip of the coin decided the older should try his luck first. He learned the girl did not love him. But the other she promised to marry when he should return from the gold lands, and the care of her sick mother, who would then be restored to health, should no longer interfere with her happiness. The young partners soon reached the other side of the desert, where success came to them far beyond their expectations.
A Misappropriated Turkey
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot to do away with the owner of the iron works, an infernal machine stuffed in a turkey's breast. The story tells how the turkey found its way to a table where there was more love than plenty.
The Reformers
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds everybody's business but his own, until that business is as clean, pure and spotless as himself. Verily in these later days is there no school of art named, "Minding One's Business."
Her Mother's Oath
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor and the fearful prayer, "If I ever speak to that man again, may God strike my mother blind," was fulfilled, but in the end the woman was saved from herself.
Cuore di mamma
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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
Death's Marathon
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?
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
The Enemy's Baby
A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When he learned his act had made him liable to the law he fled with his family, but came back after a lost baby, now in the hands of the enemy.
A Timely Interception
A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be postponed and the money put to the more pressing need. The farmer, now himself destitute, is forced to put his house up for sale to repay his creditors. Meanwhile, a man from the oil syndicate discovers oil on the farmer's land. Moving quickly, the syndicate tries to buy the farm before the farmer knows what he is selling. -Harpodeon
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
The Sorrowful Shore
There dwelt the widowed fisherman and his indulged son. Then the girl, the sole survivor of the wreck came into their lives. The father suppressed his own love, realizing the son could offer youth instead of age, but the young woman decided otherwise. It was through the young wife's attempt to make peace without exposing the son that the sorrowful shore revealed another tragedy.
The Ranchero's Revenge
The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress soon discovered she was not as heartless as she at first imagined. She learned to love and when the other man appeared to perpetrate the infamous design, true woman nature came into the struggle, saving both herself and the ranchero.
His Mother's Son
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked. Lack of attention made her son dissolute, but later the sturdy stock of his mother showed in him and the cozy home he provided for dad and sister made them forget the past.
His Mother's Son
This picture tells how a boy is cared for all his life by his mother, when he is well and when he is ill.
Just Gold
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love, and love was his reward: in the happiness of two old parents and the heart of a sweet girl. But those in the gold regions, each for himself, seeking just gold, found their ill rewards in the sordid earth of the Bad Lands.
The Yaqui Cur
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend,"
The Stolen Loaf
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
The House of Darkness
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Wanderer
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey, later re-released as The Wanderer), a film not directed by Griffith.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
If We Only Knew
A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow / Never trouble us again / Would the bright eyes of our darling / catch the frown upon our brow / Would the prints of rosy fingers / Vex us then as they do now?"
The Lady and the Mouse
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be that as it may, she could not find it in her to drown the unwelcome visitor to the pantry, so she let it go and the silent little drama witnessed by the tramp greatly impressed him. Not so the strict aunt, she declared the whole thing to be in exact accordance with everything else in the family. Their hearts ran away with their heads. That was why they lost money on credit, could not pay off the mortgage and send the sick sister to a better climate. As for the tramp, they had no business to take him in. He could not pay for his keep. But the tramp surprised them all.
The Left-Handed Man
The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was great and in unraveling the mystery the detective she engaged used the scientific methods of today, making a brilliant detective story.
A Misunderstood Boy
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble and the chief vigilante believed him the cause of it all. So he was "in wrong" all around. The girl's father also sided with the opinion of the world, and sent both the boy and girl away. Mother was on a visit at the time, and therein the need of such a one at home was proved, for once back she sent the father out to bring them home again. The boy in the gold hills had been misunderstood again. Marauding merchants had left their victim on the mountain pass and the boy, coming on the scene, was again accused, but the lie in the end destroyed itself.
The Little Tease
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. But that was before the man from the valley lost his way and later found it back again, bearing away the little tease to the valley. While she suffered the qualms of broken faith, her father passed through a like struggle, for he felt the precepts of the "beloved book" had failed him. He closed the door of his cabin upon the world and the light from his window, lighting the wayfarer over the mountain path, disappeared. The struggle over, it came hack in its place in time to beckon the little tease as she left the valley behind.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Perfidy of Mary
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who steps in the way of her own true love, finds her way to love-land. That was where Mary's perfidy came in. It showed up Lothario's true character, while at the same time it brought Mary back to her own determined young lover.
The Hero of Little Italy
It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy. At first Tony's jealousy was aroused, but reasoning that it was no time nor place for anything but enjoyment, he smothered the feeling. However, Maria carried the flirtation too far and a tragedy was imminent. This tragedy, though, was averted through a small boy's daring, the girl fully realizing what might have been the result of her thoughtlessness.
The Sheriff's Baby
After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the future, and the reflection of all that was dear in the past. But a sheriff has no time to tread a cradle rocker, so the baby started off on the long journey to relatives across the desert. Then the sheriff was called away to hunt the "bad men" of the desert, and found there a deserted prairie schooner, the occupants dead and his baby gone.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Fate
Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers of peace and kindness. But granddad dwelt in a house filled more with love, and when Sim came in for his brutal sport, he soon went out assisted by granddad. Incited by ridicule and drink, Sim swore to get even. That was where granddad's new supply of powder came in. Sim appropriated it and although he wrecked the house of love, he destroyed through his venom the only thing he cherished in life.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
Near To Earth
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the west. Gato becomes so intent on his work that he neglects to show his wife the little attentions she demands. A foppish wandering Italian, Sandro, sees in this an opportunity to work his ends, but is prevented by the timely interference of Giuseppe.
The Unwelcome Guest
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper. She and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Broken Ways
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
Love in an Apartment Hotel
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advice to Young Ladies" look higher than ice-water toters. A compromising complication, however, with an unexpected visit from a beautiful lady, quite convinces the aspiring one that wealthy young bachelors may be the grandest men ever, but their aspirations, when it comes to the crucial test, are not for chambermaids. Science influences his actions so much that he gets into trouble with the police.
A Chance Deception
The jealous husband saw a flirtation; the Raffles, a necklace. The husband's suspicions were further confirmed when the Raffles came out of his hiding. The Raffles permitted the deception, until his manhood came to the surface. He realized how his own happiness might have been so jeopardized, and the little wife concerned was restored to her own.
Oil and Water
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.
Brothers
His dumb grief was mistaken for indifference at his mother's death-bed, but it was the non-committal lady who learned the truth. The favorite son came to woo and win her. She made fine biscuits. In the end, as is quite apt to be the case, the lady gave up herself and her accomplishments in a way quite unexpected.
The Tender Hearted Boy
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true to the end, though it seemed for a time as if his purpose would never he fulfilled. Cunning minds were thwarted and the girl received a double promise.
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
Three Friends
Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew their attachment over a social glass. They bound themselves to remain thus as long as life might last, never to marry. But one was a traitor, while the other two were called away. A widened breach, a quarrel, fanned the resentment, but true friendship at last claimed its own.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Coming of Angelo
Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony. Then Angelo came. Theresa, though aroused by her first real love, strove to keep her vows to Guido, but life's big law overcame her. Guido prepared a death feast for himself, then summoned Angelo. Why should he die for another's happiness? But Angelo lived.
The God Within
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
A Cry for Help
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
The Massacre
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
The Burglar’s Dilemma
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the intruder with murder.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.3/10
My Hero
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated bliss and anguish of these two. She refused to eat for her hero and for her he bore the marks of battle, an eye made black by a cruel parent's fist. Tired of such an unsympathetic world, they sought the wilderness, where, had it not been for Indian Charlie, these two "babes in the wood" would have ended their dream in a manner quite too disagreeable to think of.
The New York Hat
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
Brutality
An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does to his family exactly what he is doing to his own family.
The Informer
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
My Baby
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Gold and Glitter
As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after his arrival. Attracted by a maid, cherished by the love of two old brothers, he forgets it until sometime later. The message serves its purpose, however, for through it, after a thrilling experience, the maid learns the true value of the man's love, while he in his turn, goes back to his waiting wife and finds there, along with his shame and regeneration, his heart's desire.
Heredity
Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanked from the luxury of her ancestral home in Britain to be raised on New York's Lower East Side. Ten years later, the grown-up Nedda stands accused of the murder of her mother.
I Moschettieri di Pig Alley
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
The Painted Lady
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
The One She Loved
Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the sweeter by the arrival of their first-born. The little trio, father, mother, baby, are bound together by love, until unreasonable jealousy possesses the young couple. While at work in his studio, the young author is visited by his wife just as he is complimenting his stenographer on her valuable aid, and from this the wife sees grounds tor suspicion. On the other hand, the young husband, seeing his wife talking to a stranger, becomes suspicious.
In the Aisles of the Wild
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood. As fate will have it, both trappers love the same girl, the elder sister, but she loves Bob, while the younger girl is attracted by Jim. The elder girl, however, through a woman's whim, pays marked attention to Jim simply to arouse jealousy in Bob. He, in temper, cannot reason her motive and leaves, so through pique she accepts and marries Jim. Later Bob revisits the place, feeling that the girl loves him best, and tries to induce her to go away with him. He finally succeeds and, as you may imagine, fate brings about justice.
The Chief's Blanket
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket.
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood sweethearts. His elder brother was considered the bad man and dead shot of the hills. The younger brother has been living in the valley for a long time and returns home to his family. He is now refined, educated, and, of course, a revelation to the little girl, who, though betrothed to the elder brother, is strongly attracted by him. Hence there is a renewal of childhood affection which the elder brother does not take kindly to.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10
So Near, Yet So Far
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors— place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends— But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Two Daughters of Eve
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because of her profession, an actress. While out on a shopping tour, the wife and her husband enter a store, leaving their little child in the auto in the care of the chauffeur. This gentleman pays but scant attention to the child, so the little one wanders off and strolls into the stage door of a theater during the matinee. The parents upon their return to the auto discover the child's absence and trace him to the theater stage, where they find him in the arms of one of the show girls. The mother matches the child from the girl's arms, scornfully exclaiming, "How dare you contaminate my child with your touch?" For this remark, together with the derisive laughter it occasions, the girl vows to be avenged.
Blind Love
A country girl is persuaded to elope with the minister's nephew but she discovers that he is worthless. After he is killed in a brawl, her former sweetheart takes her back to her home.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.0/10
Il nemico sconosciuto
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.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
The Inner Circle
A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his wife is his little child, reluctantly becomes a member of a secret society existent among his countrymen. The active members of this society have observed the success of another Italian and feel that their they should share in his wealth. They send him a demand for $5,000, ostensibly to pay for the expenses of their society. The rich man is defiant of their demand, and consequently the society decides to kill him-- electing the newest member, the widower, to do the deed.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
The Narrow Road
Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10
Man's Genesis
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.6/10
An Indian Summer
A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it is owned by a widow, and managed by her daughter. The widow and the widower are impressed with each other at first sight and a romance is imminent. However, the widower realizes his hair is both white and scant and feels that unless he looks a little younger, his chances with the widow are slim. He writes to a hair tonic manufacturer for aid. While trying to keep the letter hidden from the widow, she becomes suspicious and imagines it is from another woman, so she turns about to make him jealous. Eventually a unique trick of fate smooths out all their misunderstandings.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
Lena and the Geese
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".
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.7/10
A Temporary Truce
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Home Folks
A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the influence of his own narrow mind. Hence when his boy suggests going to a barn dance, he flies into a rage and commands that the boy remain at home. The boy, however, becomes rebellious and goes, and for this act of disobedience the father drives him from the house and forces the rest of the family to swear never to mention his name again. It's soon revealed that father does have a soft spot and misses the boy. Mary's not-so-bright suitor, the local smith, asks for her hand. When her brother does return to the old home to reconcile, Mary's partner believes her to be unfaithful.
A Beast at Bay
A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new suitor refuses to get mixed up in a street brawl, the young woman views him as a coward. Nearby, a violent convict has escaped from prison. While the couple takes a ride in the woman’s automobile, the criminal ambushes a guard, taking the officer’s clothing and gun. The young woman still argues her suitor is a coward, drops him off, and drives off alone. She is then carjacked by the on-the-lam criminal. The young man witnesses the ambush and sets out to rescue his lover.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
When Kings Were the Law
Over the Kingdom of Romanda there reigned a King who was greatly influenced by his favorite, whom he devotedly loved. He presents her with a necklace of fabulous worth and enjoins that she never part with it, which command she swears by the stars to keep. About this time an impecunious cousin of the King calls to beg the loan of money, which is refused. The favorite promises to intercede for him. The cardinal and the favorite are bitter enemies because of her thwarting many of his pet schemes, and he plans a revenge by inciting jealousy in the King. The scheme he devises is to have the necklace missing and found in the cousin's pocket. The plan succeeds so well that the King condemns the seemingly guilty pair to an air-tight chamber, where they would have suffocated to death had not the lady-in-waiting, who helped in the plot, become horror-stricken and confessed.
A Lodging for the Night
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
The Old Actor
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives him a five dollar gold piece, thinking that it was a smaller coin. A chase ensues with a policeman, the daughter, and her beau in hot pursuit. When caught he is recognized by his shocked daughter, but is quickly forgiven by all. Meanwhile the actor hired to replace him has already been fired and a messenger is dispatched to rehire the Old Actor to the delight of his wife, daughter, and fellow actors.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.4/10
His Lesson
He had no thought, but to work and save money. His poor wife did nothing but drudge, with no return other than an existence. One day, a young man stops at the farmhouse to get a drink of water. He imagines from her sad face that all is not as it should be, and tells her that her eyes are too beautiful for tears and her hands too delicate to carry the burdens set for her. The husband sees and hears and is at last made to realize that her life, without the sunshine of love, is but a little better than death, and so he makes a change for the better.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
The Lesser Evil
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.3/10
One Is Business, the Other Crime
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Just Like a Woman
When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are worthless, he finds the daughter less attractive. The widow's broker has a wealthy friend, who becomes very interested in the girl, although he is twice her age. He proposes marriage, believing that he can win her love through kindness. The girl, for her mother' sake accepts and they are married. Despite his great love he is unable to overcome the great difference in their ages, so he buys the worthless oil stock so that she may be independent, and he then leaves her to go back to his oil fields. His sacrifice arouses the girl's love and she follows him to tell him of her awakening.
The Female of the Species
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.2/10
Fate's Interception
The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he pays considerable attention to the little Mexican girl, at whose home he is a roomer. The girl falls deeply in love with the American, who wins her absolute confidence. When the time comes for his departure, he of course cannot take her with him, and when he says goodbye, she realizes how false his promises were. Her love for the American now turns to bitter hate, so she agrees to marry her erstwhile sweetheart, whom she threw aside for the American, if he will avenge her wrong. This he consents to do.
La ragazza e la sua fede
A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
The Root of Evil
A woman, driven by envy, is convinced that her husband loves another woman, leading her to a vengeful act that ultimately destroys her own happiness.