Swords and Hearts
Silent film · 16 min · dir. D. W. Griffith
- Drama
- silent film
- War
Synopsis
As Hugh Frazier, son of a wealthy tobacco planter, leaves to join his company in the Confederate Army, he becomes engaged to Irene Lambert, a beautiful, but cold and calculating girl, who promises her hand when he returns victorious. Unknown to Hugh, Jennie Baker, a little girl of the "poor white class," has fallen passionately in love with him. Her father is one of those who hate the "aristocrats," eking an existence selling berries, etc., from their little garden. Hugh, making a flying visit…
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Details
- Director
- D. W. Griffith
- Writer
- Emmett C. Hall
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
- Studio
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
- Released
- 1911-08-27
- Running time
- 16 minutes
Cast & crew
D. W. Griffith Director
Verner Clarges
Wilfred Lucas
W. Chrystie Miller- Frank Evans
Francis J. Grandon
Kate Bruce
Florence La Badie
Dorothy West
