Isn't Life Wonderful (Silent)
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 1924
- Label: Grapevine Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Carol Dempster & Neil Hamilton | |
Performer: | Erville Alderson & Helen Lowell | |
Featured: | Erville Anderson | |
Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
Screenwriting by | D.W. Griffith | |
Produced by | D.W. Griffith |
Entertainment Reviews:
50%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 18
Filming on location in 1924, D. W. Griffith dramatized, in the heat of the moment, the turmoil arising in Germany from runaway inflation and unhealed wartime traumas.
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New Yorker
It is always painful to have to abandon an article of faith; but, frankly, I can no longer hope that Griffith will produce another good film. There only remains gratitude for his achievements in the past.
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
A family of Polish refugees tries to survive in post-World War I Germany. Inga, the family?s adopted daughter plans to marry her love Paul, a wounded veteran. Can they start a new life as the economic and political deterioration begins to take their toll.
Product Description:
This silent drama from D.W. Griffith concerns the struggles of a poor young waif (Carole Dempster) and her starving family in post-World War I Germany. Young Inga (Dempster) has to deal with out-of-control inflation and grinding poverty in order somehow put food on her starving family's table. One notable scene follows her agonized attempt to buy food with a shopping cart of practically worthless Deutsche marks. In another, her and her boyfriend (Neil Hamilton) are robbed of their potato harvest by a motley band of food thieves who mistake them for black market profiteers. Through it all, however, the family maintains a touching optimism and appreciation for the small things in life.
Griffith once again proved himself ahead of his time with this film, a predecessor of European "neo-realist" films like THE BICYCLE THIEF. Unfortunately as a plea of sympathy for an enemy defeated, this film fell on hostile ears; it was not a hit at the box office and ended Griffith's career as an independent producer. His next film, SALLY OF THE SAWDUST would be as a contract director. Regardless of audience acceptance, ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL' was a critical success, and holds up well today, evincing Griffith's peerless mastery of suspense and pathos.
Griffith once again proved himself ahead of his time with this film, a predecessor of European "neo-realist" films like THE BICYCLE THIEF. Unfortunately as a plea of sympathy for an enemy defeated, this film fell on hostile ears; it was not a hit at the box office and ended Griffith's career as an independent producer. His next film, SALLY OF THE SAWDUST would be as a contract director. Regardless of audience acceptance, ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL' was a critical success, and holds up well today, evincing Griffith's peerless mastery of suspense and pathos.
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