Monday 20 November 2017

Early Griffith bigotry

The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

Directed by D. W. Griffith and G. W. Blitzer this is a short film staring Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson and Gladys Egan. Parents take their daughter to the river where they fall foul of some gypsies.

If you have gypsy-phobia this is the film for you, if you don't think all gypsies are evil and out to steal your kids then maybe approach with caution. For an early film this is fairly exciting if not terribly deep plot. Unfortunately the image quality of the surviving film is not great so it's hard to find much to recommend this film on.


2/5

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