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In 1918-1919 D. W. Griffith turned from spectacles such as The Birth of a Nation Intolerance and Hearts of the World to smaller films which he called his "short story series." Among these is True Heart Susie. "There are those of us who consider True Heart Susie to be Griffith's masterpiece" writes Tom Gunning in his notes for a 2006 screening at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. He goes on to praise the "narrative structure and point of view as well as the fine details of performance framing and even the use of intertitles that makes a seemingly modest film such as this appear nearly incandescent in it
In 1918-1919 D. W. Griffith turned from spectacles such as The Birth of a Nation Intolerance and Hearts of the World to smaller films which he called his "short story series." Among these is True Heart Susie. "There are those of us who consider True Heart Susie to be Griffith's masterpiece" writes Tom Gunning in his notes for a 2006 screening at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. He goes on to praise the "narrative structure and point of view as well as the fine details of performance framing and even the use of intertitles that makes a seemingly modest film such as this appear nearly incandescent in its confessional and emotional power." In an almost mythical American arcadia Lillian Gish portrays a pure prim girl who so loves her childhood sweetheart (Griffith's most charming boyish hero Robert Harron) that she sells the family cow to anonymously finance his higher education only to lose him to a more "modern" woman (Clarine Seymour) when he comes home. Gish's performance is among her best her face what Gunning calls a "battleground of emotions staging complete and progressive dramas of realization recognition and despair."As a bonus feature we offer Hoodoo Ann. This light comedy is Griffith-supervised and scripted (using the pseudonym Granville Warwick) although the actual direction is by Lloyd Ingraham. Mae Marsh is paired with Robert Harron; the actors had been often partnered since Biograph days concurrently were in the modern story of Intolerance and continued to play leads together until Miss Marsh left the company at the end of 1916. Although the plot is a tangle of unlikely coincidence the performers make it work and "it is filled with those little touches for which Fine Arts pictures are famous" in the words of an original review.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 014381384628 Manufacturer No: ID3846DSDVD
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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Release date: 28 August 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0014381384628 UPC: 014381384628
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