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The Girl Who Stayed at Home

191969 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Two American brothers approach the war differently: Ralph enlists, while James hopes to avoid separation from his cabaret-performer sweetheart. Military service eventually brings them together in France. Their romantic attachments and a French family's old political loyalties become part of a story about the war's demands on private life.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
69:08
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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

Released after the armistice, Griffith's drama joins battlefield rescue to a patriotic reconciliation at home. Its treatment of a former Confederate living in France extends that reconciliation to an older American conflict.

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