The Oath and the Man
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
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The Oath and the Man was directed by D W Griffith in 1910. Griffith is often out of his depth when he goes far back in history. Herein he trivializes the French revolution. Before you criticize him, though, remember he was making two or three of these a week. If you get a few laughs, you will be laughing at it not with it
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- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Starring
- Henry B. Walthall, Florence Barker, W. Chrystie Miller, Francis J. Grandon, Jack Pickford, Marion Leonard, Arthur V. Johnson, Jeanie Macpherson
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