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Hearts of the World

  • 19181918
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h 57m
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6.6/10
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Lillian Gish and George Siegmann in Hearts of the World (1918)
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Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
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    • D.W. Griffith(under the personal direction of)
    • D.W. Griffith(English translation)
  • Stars
    • Lillian Gish
    • Dorothy Gish
    • Robert Harron
    • D.W. Griffith(under the personal direction of)
    • D.W. Griffith(English translation)
  • Stars
    • Lillian Gish
    • Dorothy Gish
    • Robert Harron
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    • 19User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Hearts of the World (1918)
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    Lillian Gish and Robert Harron in Hearts of the World (1918)
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    Dorothy Gish in Hearts of the World (1918)
    Lillian Gish and Robert Harron in Hearts of the World (1918)
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    Lillian Gish and Robert Harron in Hearts of the World (1918)
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    Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish
    • The Girl - Marie Stephenson
    Dorothy Gish
    Dorothy Gish
    • The Little Disturber
    Robert Harron
    Robert Harron
    • The Boy - Douglas Gordon Hamilton
    Adolph Lestina
    • The Grandfather
    Josephine Crowell
    Josephine Crowell
    • The Mother
    Jack Cosgrave
    • The Father of the Boy
    Kate Bruce
    Kate Bruce
    • The Mother of the Boy
    Ben Alexander
    Ben Alexander
    • The Boy's Littlest Brother
    Marion Emmons
    • The Boy's Other Brother
    • (as M. Emmons)
    Francis Marion
    • The Boy's Other Brother
    • (as F. Marion)
    Robert Anderson
    Robert Anderson
    • Monsieur Cuckoo
    George Fawcett
    George Fawcett
    • The Village Carpenter
    George Siegmann
    George Siegmann
    • Von Strohm
    Fay Holderness
    • The Innkeeper
    L. Lowry
    • A Deaf and Blind Musician
    Eugene Pouyet
    • A Poilu
    Anna Mae Walthall
    • A French Peasant Girl
    Yvette Duvoisin
    • A Refugee
    • (as Yvette Duvoison of the Comédie Française)
      • D.W. Griffith(under the personal direction of)
      • D.W. Griffith(English translation) (scenario)
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    • Trivia
      D.W. Griffith filmed some battle scenes during actual battles at the front in France. While he was out near the front trenches scouting locations, his party came under a surprise German artillery barrage. Griffith and his assistant jumped in a nearby ditch, and when the barrage was over they emerged from the ditch to discover that although they were uninjured, a shell had exploded near the ditch, killing the two soldiers acting as their escorts, along with a dozen other soldiers standing nearby.
    • Goofs
      A letter sent to The Boy from the Academie des Concourts is dated "7-30-1914." Europeans write dates with the day first and the month secondly. The letter from Paris should be dated "30-7-1914."
    • Alternate versions
      An expanded version, "Peace Edition", was released after the end of World War I.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Great Love (1918)

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    Hearts of the World (1917)

    *** (out of 4)

    D.W. Griffith's WW1 epic has two Americans (Robert Harron, Lillian Gish) living in France and falling in love. When the German's attack the man goes off to fight, which ends with devastating results. The actual making of this film is somewhat more interesting than the final product, although the movie is still good but several notches below The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. After that epic 1916 film Griffith wanted to try something bigger and found that the British government was willing to give him full access to anything he wanted. Griffith wanted to shoot real battle scenes and that's what he did for the film and he nearly once again was killed doing so. The British paid for the film to be made in hopes that it would inspire America to join the war effert. As for the film, it has some brilliant moments but sadly the love story really brings things down, which was somewhat surprising since Griffith is usually good with the melodrama. Harron is decent in his role but not strong enough to carry the film. Gish on the other hands is terrific as usual as is her sister Dorothy. Erich von Stroheim plays one of the German's in charge. The battle scenes, a lot of them real WW1 footage, is the highlight of the film and like Griffith's previous two films, it's rather amazing to see everything play out. This is certainly some of the greatest battlefield scenes I've ever watched. There's also another terrific scene where Gish, fearing her love is dead, tries to find him in the trenches. Gish's walk mixed with the beautiful cinematography makes this an unforgettable scene. In the end the film is certainly flawed but the battle scenes make it worth at least one viewing.
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      • June 1918 (United Kingdom)
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Surrey, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • D.W. Griffith Productions
      • Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
      • War Office Committee
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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