THE HOUSE WITH CLOSED SHUTTERS
UNSEEN CINEMA
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16m
Photographed at Biograph's New York studio and in Fort Lee, New Jersey, from 25-June to 2-July and released 11-August, 1910, this is D.W. Griffith's two-hundred-forty-fourth film and of eighty-six he directed that year. It is daring in its attempt to cover many years in only one reel and shows skill in its handling of crowds and battles. — David Shepard
In the midst of the American Civil War (or the War Between the States), a young soldier loses his nerve and his sister takes his place.
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