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Fate's Turning

191117 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A young businessman proposes to a waitress while recovering at a hotel, then withdraws after returning to his wealthy family. Her visit on the day of his planned society wedding forces him to face the consequences of the abandoned promise.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
17:00
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

The Biograph melodrama contrasts private commitment with class expectations. Its resolution makes the comfortable household confront a relationship it might otherwise have kept outside.

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