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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1536

The Day After

19098 minUnited States

Synopsis

A married couple promises to control its drinking at a New Year's Eve party. Both fail, and the husband's fear of facing his wife the next morning depends on not yet knowing that she shares his embarrassment.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 8:00
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

Blanche Sweet

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

The comedy uses a respectable social gathering to expose a gap between promises and behaviour. Mutual guilt ultimately changes the balance of a feared domestic confrontation.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Blanche Sweet — Hartsook · Public domain

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