The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
- Awards
- 1 win
Lucille La Verne
- A Refugee Mother
- (as Lucile La Verne)
Paul Doucet
- Marquis de Lafayette
- (as H. Paul Doucet)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film is regarded as a major turning point in the career of D.W. Griffith. Its critical and public failure ended Griffith's tenure as the industry's preeminent director.
- GoofsPaul Revere falls off his horse. For some reason, Griffith has Revere ride up the steps of people's homes to announce "The British are coming!" as if he has to shout this at their doors. Backing down one set of stairs, Revere's horse falls, tossing the actor, who quickly recovers and shows considerable concern for the horse's welfare. Griffith left in the spill.
- Quotes
Nathan Holden: Love may come and love may go, and sigh like the wind from tree to tree. But I shall love no more, no more, till this fair maid come back to me.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Negro Soldier (1944)
Featured review
A ponderous history lesson
I sincerely believe you need to be American and/or extremely familiar with American revolutionary history and mythology to benefit at all from this movie. Being a European I desperately hung on to Griffith's very long, ponderous inter titles the contents and pedantic tone of which were driving me up the wall with boredom. This is an old-school history lesson with nice, well-lit pictures and it doesn't help a lot that Griffith tries to spice it up with a Romeo & Juliet inspired love affair between Neil Hamilton and Carol Dempster, stilted and artificial.
It never ceases to amaze me how the director who staged the riveting finale of 'Way Down East', the whole continuous glory of 'Hearts of the World', 'Orphans of the Storm', 'Broken Blossoms' and, oh yes, the inimitable, symphonic dynamics of the insurmountable 'Intolerance', how can it be that Griffith as late as 1924 is so uncertain as to what will play and what not?
He was fifty, so? He was going out of fashion fast, here you see why. What happened? Will somebody write the book and let me know?
6/10
It never ceases to amaze me how the director who staged the riveting finale of 'Way Down East', the whole continuous glory of 'Hearts of the World', 'Orphans of the Storm', 'Broken Blossoms' and, oh yes, the inimitable, symphonic dynamics of the insurmountable 'Intolerance', how can it be that Griffith as late as 1924 is so uncertain as to what will play and what not?
He was fifty, so? He was going out of fashion fast, here you see why. What happened? Will somebody write the book and let me know?
6/10
Details
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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