Swords and Hearts
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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Swords and Hearts, D W Griffith 1911. Griffith returns to the Civil war, this time with a story of a Southern officer, who when he returns from the war, finds his fiance attached to a Northern officer, but all is well, the poor but honest girl who saved him from death still loves him. It is not bad and worth a look. I have added music and some sounds. While these Biograph shorts may seem simplistic to us today, pause to consider how exciting they must have been to audience who may never have seen a movie before.
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- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Starring
- Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell, Dorothy West, William J. Butler, Charles West, Francis J. Grandon, Verner Clarges, Alfred Paget
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