1985's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only filmed version of the Mark Twain classic to cover every episode in the...
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1985
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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1912
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The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story...
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1967
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1912
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Lillian Gish shows almost as much spunk in this picture as her hoydenish sister Dorothy Gish usually did. Daphne La Tour...
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1916
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1913
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This adaptation of the Tennyson poem is graced with the presence of silent luminary Lillian Gish as Annie Lee. Three children...
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1915
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Paul Armstrong's venerable stage melodrama The Escape was first brought to the screen by D.W. Griffith in 1914. In true...
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1914
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1912
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1963
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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In the sentimental world of filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the greatest thing in life is love. Obtaining it and understanding it,...
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1918
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This third film version of Harold Brighthouse's play Hobson's Choice moves the locale from turn-of-century London to 1914 New...
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1983
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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1913
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1912
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1913
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1912
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One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how...
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1916
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1913
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1913
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This documentary follows noted film archivist Henri Langlois as he returns to Paris. Over 60,000 prints exist in his Paris...
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1970
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1913
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Interviewed in her charming New York apartment at the age of 88, the indomitable Lillian Gish (her last name an Anglicized...
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1984
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In one of her autobiographies, Lillian Gish reprinted in toto the studio synopsis of the D.W. Griffith production The Lily...
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1915
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Wallace Reid and Dorothy Gish were already screen favorites when they starred on this "Mutual Masterpicture." Dosia Dale...
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1915
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1913
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Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story...
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1945
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1913
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1913
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1913
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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1912
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1912
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1912
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2011
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1913
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1912
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1912
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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Filmed on location in Italy, where director Henry King ruled over a huge set that covered 17 acres, Romola stars...
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1925
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1914
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1913
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1916
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1983
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Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to...
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1986
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This drama examines the illicit love affair between a high-school teacher and one of her students. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1981
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1913
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In this mystery, twin gumshoes team up to expose a band of bogus spiritualists involved in murder . ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1976
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1912
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1912
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1913
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1913
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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A Young Mother
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1914
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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Alexandra
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1930
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LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard...
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Alice Willows
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1967
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Lillian Gish plays the girl whose travails begin when her father dies and her conniving sister cheats her out of her...
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Angela Chiaromonte
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1923
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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Anna Moore
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1920
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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Annie Laurie
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1927
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There's no love lost between small-town busybody Bessie Carnby (Lillian Gish) and her neighbors Henry and Samantha Wilkins...
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Bessie Carnby
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1964
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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Beth Warren
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1943
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Lillian Gish tried her hand at film-directing in this gentle comedy of marital infidelity. Dorothy Gish is Janie, the young...
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Director
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1920
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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Elsie Stoneman
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1915
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Henriette Girard
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1922
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Hester Prynne
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1926
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Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old...
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Hetty Seibert
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1966
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Hillie Radcliffe
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1984
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His Sweetheart
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1914
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Jane Andrews
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1914
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Laura Belle McCanles
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1946
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The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and...
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Letty
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1928
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Lucy Burrows
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1919
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of...
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Matilda Zachary
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1960
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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Mimi
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1926
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Mother Mary of Mercy
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1948
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His Double Life is a sweet, charming adaptation of the venerable Arnold Bennett play Buried Alive. Roland Young plays Priam...
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Mrs. Alice Hunter
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1933
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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Mrs. Bergesen
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1942
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The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he,...
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Mrs. Summers
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1958
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Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between...
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Nettie Sloan
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1978
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Pauli Arndt
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1927
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Rachel Cooper
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1955
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A once-in-a-lifetime cast of veterans performs David Berry's play about Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber...
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Sarah Webber
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1987
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True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith's "pastoral" films, wherein plot takes second place to characterization and romance....
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Susie May Trueheart
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1919
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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The Girl, Marie Stephenson
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1918
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The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
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1916
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Victoria Inch
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1955
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