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Dick Bannister is the new field boss of the Ford Logging Company, a Canadian logging-crew during a time when conflicts with the powerful Consolidated Lumber Company, a bitter rival company, have turned bloody, like a private war. His boss, Miss Edith Ford, comes to inspect the lumberjack camp, bringing her doctor fiancé with her. Dick ...

Runtime

1h 8m

Director

George Chesebro

Cast

Roy Watson, Milburn Morante, Frank Clark

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Fritz Lang

Cast

Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos

A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant 1797 inva...

Runtime

7h 5m

Director

Abel Gance

Cast

Albert Dieudonné, Nicolas Roudenko, Edmond van Daële

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and p...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Raoul Walsh

Cast

Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici