Friday 22 June 2018

How to be even more racist


His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

Directed by D. W. Griffith this sequel stars Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell and Gladys Egan. Former slave helps raise his master's daughter following his death fighting for the Confederates in the US Civil war.

Taking what tiny shred of decency this series has it gets thrown away by showing the former slave as a thief after all. Stupid and racist it's hard for me to see why this short has any redeeming features. Prints of this film my be preserved for historical reason but the only historical value I see here is yet another example of Griffith being racist.

1/5

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