Another slow and labourous Griffith melodrama about a lustful rich man who proposes to a country woman not out of love but desire. Griffith liked his morals applied with glue and heavy duty nails before being wrapped in tape, so I guess you ought to realise that this is a bad thing to do. Well, just in case it wasn't obvious enough through watching the film, he stuck some title cards at the front before the thing even begins to tell you so. If you like your education in the scripted costume of 1920's wealth and grandeur, this is the school for you.
Being a Griffith film the shots and cinematography - his strong point - are nice - although the constant vignetting bugged me almost as much as the story. Instead of focusing your gaze on the subject as intended, they distract you from it. The acting is also over-exaggerated.
Being a Griffith film the shots and cinematography - his strong point - are nice - although the constant vignetting bugged me almost as much as the story. Instead of focusing your gaze on the subject as intended, they distract you from it. The acting is also over-exaggerated.