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Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More
Synopsis: The Man You Loved to Hate is a perfunctory but interesting documentary of the life and work of Erich von Stroheim. Through filmclips, still pictures, newsreel vignettes and interviews with friends and intimates, the film traces the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of von Stroheim's Read More
Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Etchika Choureau, Jacques Sernas, Dora Doll, Jacques Castelot
Synopsis: Erich von Stroheim dominates the proceedings in the French L'Envers du Paradis (Other Side of Paradise) Set in a tiny village near the Riviera, the story concerns a diverse group of has-beens and losers. Von Stroheim plays O'Hara (sic!), a sea captain who's never been to sea. The Countess (played Read More
Actors: Jean Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Peter Van Eyck, Lia Amanda
Synopsis: Though his services as a director were no longer required in the 1950s, Erich Von Stroheim kept busy as an actor, especially in the French film industry. Alerte au Sud (Alert in the South) top-bills Von Stroheim as a demented German general who refuses to concede that WW II is over and who Read More
Actors: Hildegarde Neff, Erich Von Stroheim, Karl Heinz Böhm, Harry Meyen, Harry Halm
Synopsis: Also known as Alraune and Mandrake, The Unnatural is a kinky science fiction film, elevated by the bravura performance of Erich Von Stroheim. Playing a mad scientist (again?), Von Stroheim artificially inseminates an addled prostitute with the sperm of a vicious murderer. The result of this unholy Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Sessue Hayakawa, Roland Toutain, Louise Carletti
Synopsis: Released in the U.S. in 1950, Mask of Korea has the sort of title that suggests a tie-in with the then-raging Korean Conflict. Not true. The film was actually lensed in France in 1940, under the title Macao l'Enfer de Jeu. Silent-film veterans Erich Von Stroheim and Sessue Hayakawa star as Read More
Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of Read More
Actors: Maria Montez, Arletty, Erich Von Stroheim, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: Three powerhouse European screen personalities--Pierre Brasseur, Erich Von Stroheim, Maria Montez---elevate the tawdry melodramatics of Le Portrait d'Un Assassin. Brasseur plays Fabius, a reckless motorcycle driver, currently working in a carnival. When he begins to "choke up" in front of the Read More
Actors: Denise Vernac, Maria Denis, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Servais
Actors: Denise Vernac, Frank Villard, Erich Von Stroheim
Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Erich Von Stroheim, Claudine Dupuis, Yves Vincent
Synopsis: Consigned to "B" pictures in Hollywood, Erich Von Stroheim fared rather better in France: his 1946 vehicle La Foire aux Chimeres (The Dream Fair) was one of the most expensive French productions of the year, and one that made back its cost many times over. Von Stroheim is appropriately cast as a Read More
Actors: Denise Vernac, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean-Jacques Delbo, André Tabet
Synopsis: Erich Von Stroheim is the principal attraction of the French melodrama On Ne Meurt pas Comme Ca. Von Stroheim is ideally cast as a tyrannical movie director, currently filming a murder mystery. While shooting a scene in which a character is poisoned, Von Stroheim complains that the actor's Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates, William Wright, Edward Van Sloan, Mauritz Hugo
Synopsis: Erich Von Stroheim's bravura performance is easily the most entertaining aspect of The Mask of Diijon, though it should be noted that the film itself is better than usual for a PRC production. "The Man You Love to Hate" is cast as Diijon, a stage magician specializing in a gruesome guillotine act. Read More
Actors: C. Aubrey Smith, Stephanie Bachelor, Forrester Harvey, Doris Lloyd
Synopsis: This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in London, the story is motivated by master criminal Carl Hoffmeyer (Erich Von Stroheim), who cooks up an intricate, apparently foolproof scheme to steal the Mona Lisa, on loan Read More
Actors: Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Stephen Barclay, Lester Allen
Synopsis: This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by Republic. The title character, played with relish (and a bit of mustard) by Erich Von Stroheim, is an arrogant vaudeville artiste specializing in a trick-gunshot act. A Read More
Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot involves the brain of a famous but unscrupulous financier, recently deceased. The brain is kept alive artificially by overenthusiastic scientist Erich Von Stroheim, with the Read More
Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich Von Stroheim, Otto Kruger, Eduardo Ciannelli
Synopsis: Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by Republic instead of Warner Bros. This wartime meller reunites the cast and director of the successful Republic melodrama Lady and the Monster, with less than successful results. Read More
Actors: John Loder, Dita Parlo, Claire Luce, Gyles Isham
Synopsis: The oft-filmed story of the WW I espionage agent known as "Fraulein Doktor" was given another go-round in the British Under Secret Orders. Dita Parlo plays Anne-Marie Lesser, a German secret agent who undermines the Allied cause at the expense of her own happiness. Top billing is bestowed upon Erich von Stroheim Read More
Actors: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Farley Granger, Ann Harding
Synopsis: In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana Andrews), Kurin (Walter Huston), Damian (Farley Granger), and Marina (Anne Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working Read More
Actors: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action is transplanted from World War I Galicia to World War II Egypt as Rommel's Afrika Corps viciously forces the British Army to retreat towards Cairo. Read More
Actors: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
Synopsis: The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War II, Adolph Hitler goes unmentioned (we wouldn't want to lose those foreign markets, would we?) Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Flotsam, the film zeroes in on three Read More
Actors: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Peter Lorre
Synopsis: Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists (Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre). She renounces her earlier life after falling in love with one of her victims (Richard Greene), but her old crooked cronies show up to blackmail her. Zorina Read More
Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Mady Berry, Claude Dauphin, Roger Duchesne
Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot, thereby causing the death of the inventor--something that the machine had predicted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Albert Prejean, Phillipe Richard
Synopsis: In The Alibi, clever, ruthless nightclub mind-reader Prof. Winckler (Erich von Stroheim) murders an old enemy and bribes the nightclub hostess Helene (Jany Holt) into saying that they were together for the entire night. However, police investigator Calas (Louis Jouvet) doesn't believe the alibi Read More
Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Marie Déa, Erich Von Stroheim, Pierre Renoir, Madeleine Geoffroy, André Brunot
Synopsis: In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the latest victim to go undercover, looking into strange newspaper ads seeking young single women, and meet all that placed the ads. She does so, but all of them are innocent. Then Read More
Actors: Claude Dauphin, Erich Von Stroheim, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard
Actors: Mireille Balin, Mady Berry, Erich Von Stroheim, Roger Duchesne
Synopsis: It's always fun to watch Erich Von Stroheim in a leading role, even in such hurry-scurry nonsense as Rappel Immediat (Immediate Call). The star plays diplomatic courier Captain Stanley Wells, who hopscotches around the hot spots of Europe on a variety of mysterious missions. While Captain Wells Read More
Actors: Mireille Balin, Ginette Leclerc, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Galland
Synopsis: Menaces (Threats) was originally filmed in 1938 under the title Cinq Jours d'Angoise. Thanks to a studio fire, the release of the film was held up for nearly two years, by which time its "rumors of war" subtext had taken on a new topicality. John Loder and Mireille Balin star as, respectively, a Read More
Actors: Annie Ducaux, Arletty, Marcel Dalio, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: La Tempete (The Tempest) is based loosely on characters created by Honore de Balzac. In one of the strangest roles of his career, Erich Von Stroheim plays an international criminal whose latest scheme involves the selling of a hair-straightening potion to African Americans. In order to gain the Read More
Actors: Mireille Balin, Louise Carletti, Erich Von Stroheim, Sessue Hayakawa
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Michel Simon
Synopsis: Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Missing from St. Agil) would be worth watching if only for the chop-licking performance by Erich von Stroheim. The story takes place at a typical French boys' school, where director Aime Clairond pursues the not-so-typical pastime of turning out counterfeit bank notes. Read More
Actors: Viviane Romance, Yvette Lebon, Jean Perrier, Roger Duchesne, Georges Flament, Erich Von Stroheim, Abel Jacquin
Synopsis: In this espionage drama, the leader of a spy ring gets a dancer involved in his schemes. The dancer is the mistress of a British officer; at the spy's urging, she cons her lover into stealing secret documents. Unfortunately, the officer bungles the job and gets caught. He goes to prison, but Read More
Actors: Dita Parlo, Erich Von Stroheim, Michele Alfa, Abel Jacquin, Bernard Lancret
Synopsis: This drama is set in the Balkans just before WW II erupts and chronicles the marriage of a Serbian soldier to an Austrian woman. During the wedding, the bride is accompanied by a friend who objects to the union on nationalistic grounds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette
Synopsis: Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking Read More
Actors: Charles Vanel, Simone Renant, Suzy Prim, Erich Von Stroheim
Actors: Marcelle Chantal, Margo Lion, Pierre Renoir, Raymond Rouleau
Crew: Screen Story
Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Galland, Marcel André
Synopsis: Marthe Richard (Edwige Feuillere) has grown up despising the memory of German army officer Von Ludow (Erich von Stroheim), who ordered the execution of Marthe's mother and father. Years later, Marthe offers her services as a secret agent on behalf of France. Dispatched to Spain, she once more Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph
Synopsis: The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable Read More
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont
Synopsis: Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist, Walthall reveals to Barrymore that he has developed a process to shrink human beings. Upon Walthall's death, Barrymore makes his way back to the old scientist's lab, intending Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Dwight Frye, Paul Guilfoyle, Harriett Russell, John Bohn
Synopsis: One of several Liberty productions picked up for release by Republic, The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a modern-dress adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Premature Burial. Erich Von Stroheim stars as brilliant surgeon Dr. Anton Crespi, who seeks revenge against Ross (John Bohn), the man who stole his Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Vera Engels, Leslie Fenton, George Humbert
Synopsis: Down on his luck in 1934, Erich Von Stroheim accepted a leading role in the Chesterfield Pictures cheapie Fugitive Road, making lemonade from a lemon by offering his services as "supervisor of military detail" (according to some sources, he also contributed to the script). Set during WW I, the Read More
Actors: Ben Lyon, Sara Maritza, Erich Von Stroheim, Hardie Albright, James Bush
Synopsis: Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures' Crimson Romance is actually a slick, entertaining little drama about broken dreams and dashed ideals. When World War I breaks out, a pair of German/American lads (Ben Lyon and Hardie Albright Read More
Actors: Donald Dillaway, John Farrell MacDonald, Nina Quartero, Phyllis Barrington, Don Alvarado
Synopsis: A minor entry from small-scale Progressive Pictures, Under Secret Orders starred the rather pallid Donald Dillaway as Henry Ames, a bank employee assigned to bring valuable bonds from San Francisco to a client, Franklyn Lawrence (Lafe McKee), in South America. En route, Henry hits the bottle once Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, Minna Gombell, ZaSu Pitts, Terrance Ray
Synopsis: Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends who leave behind the small town where they were raised to try their luck in New York City. Before long, Millie and Peggy meet Jimmy (James Dunn) and Mac (Terrance Ray); Read More
Actors: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich Von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper
Synopsis: This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the legendary Greta Garbo plays a down-in-the-dumps amnesiac (she can't recall who her husband is) who ends up singing in a low-life nightclub and putting up with the advances of a Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Erich Von Stroheim, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: Unable to find steady work after WWI, three former flying aces -- Gibson (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong) and Red (Joel McCrea) -- hire themselves out as stunt flyers for the movies. They find themselves employed by tyrannical director Von Furst (Erich Von Stroheim, playing what amounts to Read More
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich Von Stroheim, Hugh Herbert
Synopsis: The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was played straight in 1931's Friends and Lovers. A very young Laurence Olivier plays Lt. Nichols, who has retreated to the desert to get over his affair with Alva Sangrito (Lily Damita Read More
Actors: Constance Bennett, Erich Von Stroheim, Anthony Bushell, Crauford Kent
Synopsis: First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of the film takes place in the London home of Sir Winston Chamberlain (sic), First Lord of the Admiralty. What Sir Winston doesn't know is that his faithful butler Erich Von Stroheim Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Betty Compson
Synopsis: After the disastrous failure of Queen Kelly, the great silent film director Eric Von Stroheim began to parcel himself out as an actor-for-hire, his directing career in tatters. His first post-Queen Kelly acting job was in this early sound film curio, with Von Stroheim playing The Great Gabbo, a Read More
Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron, William Von Brincken, Madge Hunt
Synopsis: Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star Gloria Swanson still had faith in him. She poured a great deal of her own money in Von Stroheim's last silent film, Queen Kelly, and agreed to play the leading role to insure Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett, George Nichols, ZaSu Pitts, Maude George
Synopsis: Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur Pat Powers for funding for his 1927 epic The Wedding March. Set during the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg regime, the film stars director Von Stroheim as wastrelly Prince Nikki Read More
Crew: Costume Designer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett
Synopsis: This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a rare event in Erich Von Stroheim's directorial career -- a critical and commercial success that the director was also able to complete according to his wishes (though in the Read More
Crew: Director, Intertitle Writer, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter
Actors: Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton
Synopsis: Frank Norris' powerful Zola-esque novel McTeague was first filmed in 1915. While filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim would insist that he'd been enthralled by the book since it first came out in 1902, it is more likely that he didn't make the novel's acquaintance until seeing that 1915 film. Whatever the Read More
Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix, Frank Mayo
Synopsis: This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story of a young woman's rise in Hollywood; the film uses real stars and productions (even Charles Chaplin filming A Woman of Paris) as its backdrop. Eleanor Boardman plays Read More
Crew: Costume Designer, Director
Actors: Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke, George Hackathorne
Synopsis: Best known today as the film which cost director Erich Von Stroheim his job at Universal Studios, Merry Go Round contains enough Von Stroheim touches to suggest that "official" director Rupert Julian merely tied together the film's loose ends. The titular merry-go-round is owned by the unspeakable George Siegmann Read More
Crew: Director, Intertitle Writer, Screenwriter
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss Du Pont, Maude George, Mae Busch
Synopsis: Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports himself by extorting huge sums of money from silly married ladies who are dumb enough to fall for his romantic charms. Von Stroheim's partners in crime, phony princesses Mae Busch Read More
Crew: Art Director, Director, Editor, Screenwriter
Synopsis: Made in between his two classics, Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives, this drama from director Erich von Stroheim centers on a restless American wife married to a rich but unsuccessful playwright who reels after his newest work is rejected. The trouble begins when she finds herself strongly Read More
Actors: Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich Von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Synopsis: Because of his portrayals of villainous Prussians in pictures such as Hearts of the World and The Heart of Humanity, Erich von Stroheim was already famous as "the man you love to hate." But Stroheim had also been quite busy behind the camera over the years, as an assistant director to D.W. Griffith Read More
Synopsis: Even though World War I had just reached its end, the war films kept coming. While The Heart of Humanity had a similar plot to D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World, it was by no means some cheap knock-off. Director Alan Holubar worked hard (sometimes too hard for this post-war era) to make the Read More
Synopsis: By the time this picture was released, World War I was nearly over and the public was tired of the same old spy stories. This picture has Dorothy Gish doing her patriotic duty by submerging her comic talents in favor of wartime melodrama. Beth (Gish) lives with her sick father (Adolphe Lestina). Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director D.W. Griffith shifted gears for this film. Intolerance had proven a financial disaster for Griffith, so he signed with producer Adolph Zukor to release his next film. He came upon the Read More
Crew: First Assistant Director
Synopsis: The first collaboration between producer Joseph M. Schenck and his wife Norma Talmadge was also their first huge success. The film's title character (played by Talmadge) is a pianist graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. An evil Baron (L. Rogers Lytton) lusts after her, and through his machinations Read More
Synopsis: Hero Gerald Ackland (Edward Earle) is not inclined to wait for America's entry into WWI. Long before his own country's official declaration, he heads to France to defend the Forces of Democracy against the Kaiser's hordes. While flying his airplane across enemy lines, our hero is forced to bail Read More
Synopsis: Daydreaming clerk Douglas Fairbanks discovers that he's of royal blood. In fact, if his information is correct, he's next in line for the throne of Vulgaria. Leaving his job behind, Fairbanks travels to the home of his forefathers to quell a takeover attempt by villainous nobleman Frank Campeau. Read More
Crew: Art Director
Synopsis: This was only one of many films that proved that the team of silent star Douglas Fairbanks, director John Emerson, and scenarist/wit Anita Loos was unbeatable when it came to comic adventure. Teddy Rutherford (Fairbanks) goes on a bender when he discovers that his sweetie (Helen Greene) loves Read More
Synopsis: In this lesser Mary Pickford vehicle -- her first picture under the Artcraft banner -- the star plays Radha, an English girl who was abandoned by her drug-addicted father, a British Army officer, in India. She has been brought up by Ramlan, a native swordmaker (Mario Majeroni), and believes Read More
Synopsis: Norma Talmadge plays a pretty young secretary who must dress dowdily to avoid the licentious overtures of her male employers. She takes a job as the social secretary to a wealthy woman, whose daughter is about to marry a nasty foreign count. Talmadgepulls a few strings to set the daughter on the Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget
Synopsis: Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives Read More
Synopsis: This the second full-length film version of Henrik Ibsen's stage tragedy Ghosts (the first was a Russian production directed by Vladimir Gardin) starred Henry B. Walthall as the benighted hero Oswald. In the original play, Oswald inherits his father's syphilis: in the film, he falls heir to his Read More
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Lewis
Synopsis: The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the Read More
Synopsis: Erich Von Stroheim played one of his first important roles in the D.W. Griffith-produced romantic drama Old Heidelberg, and he took full advantage of the opportunity, ruthlessly upstaging everyone in sight. For the most part, however, this first film adaptation of Wilhelm Meyer-Forster's novel Read More
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