Oriental potentate William Welsh is tired of his usual favorite, Frances Nelson, so he poisons her by snakebite and orders in Lilian Gish. She, however, loves Robert Harron and resists, so he throws both of them in prison.
I see that someone thinks that Griffith co-directed this movie, even though Christy Cabanne is the credited guy in charge. I can only conclude that whoever put that credit up - which is just about impossible to remove; I have tried to fix various errors of this sort over the years, and an IMDb credit, like the law of the Medes and Persians, altereth not. Anyone who thinks that D.W. Griffith had a hand in directing this overstuffed sausage has never seen this movie; if he has, he has never seen a D.W. Griffith movie made after, oh, May of 1909 at the latest. Me, at just saw it at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
Miss Gish is okay, and Bobby doesn't have that much to do, but everyone else overacts and the set is so cluttered you can't make out the Biograph Right Wall, which gives depth to the image.
While it was true that Griffith had a supervisory hand in all Biograph movies at this point, his involvement was pretty obviously minimal. I suspect he approved the project, and that was it.
I see that someone thinks that Griffith co-directed this movie, even though Christy Cabanne is the credited guy in charge. I can only conclude that whoever put that credit up - which is just about impossible to remove; I have tried to fix various errors of this sort over the years, and an IMDb credit, like the law of the Medes and Persians, altereth not. Anyone who thinks that D.W. Griffith had a hand in directing this overstuffed sausage has never seen this movie; if he has, he has never seen a D.W. Griffith movie made after, oh, May of 1909 at the latest. Me, at just saw it at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
Miss Gish is okay, and Bobby doesn't have that much to do, but everyone else overacts and the set is so cluttered you can't make out the Biograph Right Wall, which gives depth to the image.
While it was true that Griffith had a supervisory hand in all Biograph movies at this point, his involvement was pretty obviously minimal. I suspect he approved the project, and that was it.
