Wilbur Higby

  • D.W. Griffith – True Heart Susie (1919)

    1911-1920D.W. GriffithRomanceSilentUSA

    True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith’s “pastoral” films, wherein plot takes second
    place to characterization and romance. Lillian Gish plays Susie May Trueheart, who
    so loves local boy William Jenkins (Robert Harron) that she secretly finances his
    education.
    As it stands, the film’s dramatic and heart-tugging value has not diminished,
    not even after the passage of nearly eighty years.Read More »

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