Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton. Also starred James Gleason, Evelyn Varden & Peter Graves. Plot: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. Director: D. W. Griffith. Also starred Eugenie Besserer, George Fawcett & Tom Wilson. Plot: An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife. IMDB rating 7.6/10. Director: D.W.Griffith. Director: D.W.Griffith. Also starred Robert Harron, Clarine Seymour and Wilbur Higby. Drama. Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbour boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices... Director: D. W. Griffith. Also starred Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce & Mary Hay. Plot: 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. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Victor Sjöström. The film was a major bomb when it came out. It's now regarded as a classic. Selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1993. Director: Henry King. Also starred J. Barney Sherry, Charles Lane & Juliette La Violette. Plot: Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate... IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: D. W. Griffith. Director: D.W.Griffith. Also starred Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Beranger and Norman. Drama/romance. A frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. Director: Victor Sjöström. Also starred Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle & William Orlamond. Plot: Letty moves to West Texas from the East and it seems that the wind always blows and the sand gets everywhere... Director: D. W. Griffith. Also starred Frank Losse, Katherine Emmett & Morgan Wallace. Plot: Henriette (Lillian) and Louise (Dorothy), a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever... Director: D. W. Griffith. Also starred henry B. Walthall, Ralph Lewis and George Siegmann. Drama/history/romance/war/western. The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war... IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: D. W. Griffith. Director: Henry King. Also starred Ronald Colman, Herbert Grimwood & Bonaventura Ibáñez. Plot: In Renaissance Florence, Tito (Powell), a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work.
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