Aug 29th
Civilization*
(US 1916)
In a fictionalised European state, a submarine commander is persuaded by his fiancee not to use it to destroy a passenger liner, and then at his death bed is imbued with the spirit of Christ to convince the nation's leader to end warfare.
Audacious pacifist epic with some grand production values, on a par with Intolerance made that same year but lacking Griffith's complexity, its one essential, doubtlessly honourable moral (but alas, ineffective), rammed home constantly with any questioning of it.
Written by: C. Gardner Sullivan.
Producer: Thomas H. Ince.
Directors: Thomas H. Ince, Reginald Barker, Raymond B. West.
Starring: Howard C. Hickman, Herschel Mayall, George Fisher (as Christ), Enid Markey, J. Frank Burke.
Photography: Irvin Willat, Joseph August, Clyde de Vinna.
Music:Victor L. Schertzinger.
Civilization*
(US 1916)
In a fictionalised European state, a submarine commander is persuaded by his fiancee not to use it to destroy a passenger liner, and then at his death bed is imbued with the spirit of Christ to convince the nation's leader to end warfare.
Audacious pacifist epic with some grand production values, on a par with Intolerance made that same year but lacking Griffith's complexity, its one essential, doubtlessly honourable moral (but alas, ineffective), rammed home constantly with any questioning of it.
Written by: C. Gardner Sullivan.
Producer: Thomas H. Ince.
Directors: Thomas H. Ince, Reginald Barker, Raymond B. West.
Starring: Howard C. Hickman, Herschel Mayall, George Fisher (as Christ), Enid Markey, J. Frank Burke.
Photography: Irvin Willat, Joseph August, Clyde de Vinna.
Music:Victor L. Schertzinger.
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