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D.W. Griffith Productions est une société de production cinématographique américaine créée en 1918 par D. W. Griffith destinée à produire ses propres films.
Filmography of D.W. Griffith Productions (9 films)
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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
, 1h37Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Kay Hammond, Lucille La Verne, Otto Hoffman
The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War and culminates with Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre.
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
, 2h30Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, La cécité, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne, Frank Losee, Frank Puglia
Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton.
Romance (1920)
, 1h10Directed by Chester Withey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Doris Keane, Basil Sydney, Betty Ross Clarke, Amelia Summerville, John Davidson
As described in a film publication, a youth (Arthur Rankin) in the prologue seeks advice from his grandfather (Sydney), who then recalls a romance of his own youth which is then shown as a flashback. A priest (Sydney) is in love with an Italian opera singer (Keane), and the drama involves the conflict between his efforts to rise above worldly things or to leave with her. The romance ends with a deep note of pathos.
Way Down East (1920)
, 2h25Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce, Creighton Hale
The rich, typified by the handsome man-about-town Lennox (Lowell Sherman), are exceptionally selfish and think only of their own pleasure.
The Idol Dancer (1920)
, 1h44Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Richard Barthelmess, Clarine Seymour, Creighton Hale, George MacQuarrie, Kate Bruce, Anders Randolf
Mary (Seymour) is the daughter of a French man and a Javanese mother and enjoys dancing. She has two lovers, one being a beachcomber (Barthelmess) who was tossed off a passing ship for failing to work and desires only to drink gin. The other is a sickly young American (Kincaid) who has come to the island in hope of regaining his health and is staying with his missionary uncle (MacQuarrie) and his wife (Bruce). Natives from a neighboring island attack. The beachcomber reforms and Mary comes to love him.
True Heart Susie (1919)
, 1h27Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, George Fawcett, Clarine Seymour, Mae Marsh, Kate Bruce
As described in a film magazine, "True Heart Susie" (Gish) lives with her aunt (O'Connor) and loves stupid William Jenkins (Harron). Her love is so great that she sacrifices the family cow, a pet of hers, and other farm produce so that he can go to college, but the benefaction is a secret one, and he finishes his theological studies without suspecting that she aided him. He has impressed her that she must dress as plainly as possible, and she is so attired when she goes with him for a "sody" on his triumphant return from college, but his eyes wonder to girls giving a more attractive expression of themselves. After he becomes a minister, he cruelly consults Susie about the policy of taking a wife, and almost breaks her heart when he weds gay Bettina "Betty" Hopkins (Seymour), expecting his bride to adopt herself to his colorless life. The young wife fails to satisfy her husband with her cooking, with William finding the dishes Susie makes more to his taste. He begins to regret his marriage, and so does his wife, who escapes the monotony of her marriage by attending a dance at a neighboring house. After she loses her key and gets caught in the rain on the way home, Betty appeals to Susie, who shields her from the consequences as far as the minister is concerned. However, Betty's fright and her soaking bring on a fatal sickness, and it is after her death that her husband learns of her escapade. Although he swears never to marry again, he finds that True Heart Susie has given the one opportunity of his life, and he returns to her with the offering of his hand in marriage.
Broken Blossoms (1919)
, 1h30Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Edward Peil Sr., George Beranger, George Nichols
Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess) leaves his native China because he "dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands." His idealism fades as he is faced with the brutal reality of London's gritty inner-city. However, his mission is finally realized in his devotion to the "broken blossom" Lucy Burrows (Lillian Gish), the beautiful but unwanted and abused daughter of boxer Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp).
Scarlet Days (1919)
, 1h17Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Richard Barthelmess, Clarine Seymour, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster, Ralph Graves, George Fawcett
Dans l'ouest américain une femme aux mœurs douteuses, Rosie, travaille dans un saloon et est faussement accusée du meurtre d'une de ses collègues. Comme sa fille, Lady Fair qui ignore tout de sa situation sociale vient lui rendre visite, la justice lui accorde le droit de rester avec elle pendant trois jours à l'écart de la ville dans une cabane. Cependant le patron du saloon, King Bagley, est très intéressé par Lady Fair et agressent les deux femmes.
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
, 1h16Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, George Fawcett, George Nichols, Bertram Grassby
As described in a film magazine, the senior John L. Logan (Fawcett) and his wife (Bruce) are very religious, and are taken aback when John Jr. (Harron) announces that he plans to leave their Southern farm and go to New York City to get rich. They take him to church and pray until he accepts religion. His sweetheart Jennie Timberlake (Gish) is afraid that he will backslide, which he does when the lure of the city becomes too strong for him. He is gone seven years and returns a rich man, but is not recognized when he returns home, which is now taking in boarders. Meanwhile, his father has fallen on hard times and is trying to get money to pay the farm's mortgage, and plans to murder the stranger staying at his home, not realizing it is his son. In town, there is a bank robbery and the robber is chased to the Logan farm. The mother sees that her son has returned home, and the father's remorse ends only as the family is once more together. It is then revealed that it was the bank robber that had been shot by the father. The faithful Jennie and John Jr. end up together at the end.