hrgmd endit requests:
 
 
> need ASAP  name of "serious" silent film supposedly aimed at audiences of
> higher tastes which nevertheless contain a fair amount of violent footage
> prefer l9l4 or prior
> seem to recall a film made in france  quite famous  about the assassination of
> the comte d'guise  etc
 
A few suggestions:
 
start with THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, which has some pretty brutal scenes
(passenger shot in cold blood, engineer beaten and thrown from train,
etc.)
 
Griffith's INTOLERANCE (even more than BIRTH OF A NATION), which
features body parts getting lopped off in the siege of Babylon and a
violent strike (patterned after the Homestead steel strike).
 
Don Larsson
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Donald Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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