Scarlet Days
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Director D. W. Griffith Cinematography Billy Bitzer Writer Stanner E.V. Taylor | 7.1/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Romance, Western Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date November 30, 1919 (1919-11-30) Genres Romance Film, Western, Adventure Film Cast Richard Barthelmess (Don Maria Alvarez), Eugenie Besserer (Mrs. Nell Winters aka Rosie Nell), Carol Dempster (Lady Fair)Similar movies Related D W Griffith movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scarlet days 1919 richard barthelmess dir by d w griffith
Scarlet Days is a 1919 American silent western film produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released through Paramount/Artcraft Pictures, Artcraft being an affiliate of Paramount. Richard Barthelmess stars in a role for which Griffith had screentested Rudolph Valentino. It is considered by many to be one of Griffith's worst films.
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Considered a lost film, it was found in the State Film Archives of the Soviet Union, which donated it to the Museum of Modern Art.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Rosie Nell (Besserer), a woman of dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter (Dempster), who knows nothing of her mother's station in life, is to return the next day from her school in the east, Rosie is granted three days of grace to be spent in company with her daughter at a nearby cabin. The three days pass happily, but King Bagley (Long), manager of the dance hall, has seen the daughter and determined to make her his own. The women barricade themselves in the cabin to resist capture and Alvarez (Barthelmess), a young outlaw with considerable local prestige, comes to their assistance. John Randolph (Graves), who also loves the young woman, joins the fight on their side, which ends with the timely arrival of the Sheriff (Fawcett). This results in a happy ending.
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