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Scarlet Days

191976 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Accused of murder, dance-hall performer Rosie Nell is allowed a brief reunion with the daughter who knows little of her life. Their refuge becomes dangerous when the hall's manager pursues the younger woman. An outlaw and another admirer join their defense as the accusation and the siege converge.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
76:23
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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

D. W. Griffith places Richard Barthelmess in a frontier melodrama built around a threatened household. The gold-rush setting brings questions of respectability and loyalty into the conventions of the Western.

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