True Heart Susie (Silent)

The story of a plain girl
True Heart Susie (Silent)
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DVD-R Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 21, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1919
  • Label: Grapevine Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 83
One of D.W. Griffith's most beautiful films, a pastoral fable of a sort that no one could ever make again, because the sensitivity and spirit have vanished along with the landscape. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Aug 19, 2013
Rating: C- -- Griffith couldn't be more sentimental and moralistic. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 27, 2007
The psychological subtlety of the silent cinema owes much to a complex visual grammar that D. W. Griffith employed to tell surprisingly old-fashioned stories.
New Yorker
Aug 21, 2013
All it satisfied in us was our intelligence, our artistic conscience. Somehow that more vital motion picture target, our heart -- rather an impressionable, not to say sentimental heart, at that -- was never really struck. Full Review
New York Tribune
Jul 30, 2019
Rating: 3/4 -- An exceedingly old-fashioned, but quite appealing, silent romance, featuring one of Lillian Gish's finest performances. Full Review
TV Guide
Aug 19, 2013
Once more, D. W. Griffith, ably assisted by [his cast and crew], has brought meaningful humanity to the screen, more nearly pure, less mixed with artificiality, than it has ever been in a motion picture play, except in other works of Mr. Griffith. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006
Griffith has handled the picture in the same masterly way that he usually has things done. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009

Description by OLDIES.com:

Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.

Product Description:

In this silent romantic drama from the great D.W. Griffith (WAY DOWN EAST, THE BIRTH OF A NATION), an innocent, good hearted young woman (Lillian Gish) makes countless sacrifices to promote the fortunes of her ignorant love, William Jenkins (Robert Harron). For one thing, she finances his ecclesiastical education, though it means sending him off to college where she can't be with him. Of course he returns educated and worldly, ignoring her worse than ever, even choosing to marry another woman--"sophisticated" Bettina Hopkins (Clarine Seymour). Naturally stoic Susie never bothers to explain all she's done for him; she even hides Betty's extra-marital affairs from her beloved (and unbelievably stupid) William's eyes. Amid the pastoral splendor of their small town she prefers to suffer, and oh, how she suffers.

HOODOO ANN: A young, unfortunate girl in an orphanage is told by the Black Cindy, the cook, that she is "hoodooed"--doomed to bad luck! After she rescues another child from the orphanage during a fire, her luck changes and she is adopted by a wealthy family. But how long will it be before her hoodoo catches up to her' HOODOO ANN was Produced by D.W. Griffith under his pseudonym, "Granville Warwick."

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Product Info

  • UPC: 842614101212
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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