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D. W. Griffith is properly esteemed as "The Father of Film" from his years of discovery making short films at the pioneer Biograph Company and for such pioneering features as "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Broken Blossoms," Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm" , but his later films--several of them lost or almost unavailable--were far less critically hailed. Griffith's 1928 comedy-drama "The Battle of the Sexes" proves to be the exception. It is the story of a middle-aged magnate (Jean Hersholt) who makes a fool of himself when he strays from his loving but frowsy wife (Belle Bennett) and children (Billy Bakewell and Sally O'Neil) into the cynical arms of a gold-digger (Phyllis Haver) and her dishonest lover (Don Alvarado). As these characters are hurt and healed, Griffith expertly draws fine lines between tragedy and comedy, and his skill makes all the difference between emotional satisfaction and formulaic melodrama. (Verleiher-Text)
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Donald Crisp
Großbritannien
Beste Filme:
Der Herr der sieben Meere (1940)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Intolerance (1916)
Lillian Gish
USA
Beste Filme:
The Wind (1928)
Intolerance (1916)
Die Nacht des Jägers (1955)
Robert Harron
USA
Beste Filme:
Intolerance (1916)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Geburt einer Nation (1915)
Mary Alden
USA
Beste Filme:
Intolerance (1916)
Geburt einer Nation (1915)
Owen Moore
Irland
Beste Filme:
Intolerance (1916)
Ein Stern geht auf (1937)
The Blackbird (1926)
William E. Lawrence
USA
Beste Filme:
Drunter und drüber (1939)
Späte Sühne (1947)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)