DW GRIFFITH 1776 or the HESSIAN RENAGADE MARY PICKFORD Video

1776 or The Hessian Renegades 1910 cast: Owen Moore, James Kirkwood, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Gertrude Robinson, Frank Powell, William A. Quirk, George O. Nicholls, Anthony O'Sullivan, Arthur Johnson summary: The Hessians, German mercenaries brought in by the British during the American Revolution, are depicted in this exciting adventure story. A young dispatch rider finds himself near his home but surrounded by Hessians, and tries to hide at his family's home. The Hessians arrive to search the home and their leader shoots the boy dead in the course of his search -- the rider's father vows revenge and the rider's sister takes the place of a Hessian sentry. The father rallies his neighbors, all old men and old women, who arrive with axes, clubs, and anything else they can carry, and they overwhelm and kill the Hessians. DW GRIFFITH AT THE BIOGRAPGH COMPANY by IRA H. GALLEN DAVID WARK GRIFFITH, was already thirty-three years old when he began with the Biograph Company. He was born in Crestwood, Kentucky, on January 22, 1815, the son of Jacob Wark Griffith, a former colonel in the Army of the Confederacy. The Civil War was a decade past when he was born; yet his family, his home and the entire social and cultural atmosphere of the Confederacy were to help shape the man who would become the father of all moving picture making. His deep chest and his articulate, compelling voice, complete with a touch of the Southern accent, completed the portrait of a logical and very ...