James griffith

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poster The Blot
The Blot
(3.4/5)
91mn - Drama
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the pr…
poster Joshua
Joshua
83mn - Drama, Thriller, Western
A black Union soldier returns from the Civil War to discover his mother brutally murdered by white outlaws. Fueled by vengeance, Joshua transforms into a relentless bounty hunter, tracking his enemies acr…
poster The Fall of Babylon
The Fall of Babylon
(3.4/5)
63mn - Drama
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 …
poster How Jones Lost His Roll
How Jones Lost His Roll
8mn - Comedy
Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinner, and serves him a large meal with plenty of wine. A…
poster Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws
Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws
60mn - Western
Only fragments remain of this 6-reel docudrama
poster The Mills in Joy and Sorrow
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow
(3.1/5)
7mn - Drama
A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.
poster Smith's Uncle
Smith's Uncle
21mn - Comedy
Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
poster Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
(3.1/5)
62mn - Comedy, Adventure, Family
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Hu…
poster The Call of the Cumberlands
The Call of the Cumberlands
(3.1/5)
63mn - Drama
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
poster Judith of Bethulia
Judith of Bethulia
(3.1/5)
61mn - Drama, History
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the w…
poster God's Little Acre
God's Little Acre
(3.3/5)
110mn - Romance, Drama, Comedy
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze t…
poster Rector's to Claremont
Rector's to Claremont
3mn - Comedy
When a group of diners boards a carriage, one man is left behind and chases after them on foot.
poster Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene
(3.1/5)
1mn - Drama
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
poster The Wanderer
The Wanderer
6mn - Drama
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…
poster My Four Years in Germany
My Four Years in Germany
(2.9/5)
127mn - War, Drama
The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
poster Bend of the River
Bend of the River
(3.6/5)
91mn - Western
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
poster The Bond
The Bond
(2.7/5)
11mn - Comedy
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating…
poster Father Gets in the Game
Father Gets in the Game
10mn - Comedy
D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl.
poster By Right of Birth
By Right of Birth
4mn - Drama
Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
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