In an important moment of this film, Flora, played by Mae Marsh, jumps off a cliff to avoid being raped by the former house slave Gus. After depicting the effects of the Civil War on the Cameron and Stoneman families, this film reaches its climax with the simultaneous rescues of Elsie Stoneman, played by Lillian Gish, and the Cameron family, who ar
In an important moment of this film, Flora, played by Mae Marsh, jumps off a cliff to avoid being raped by the former house slave Gus. After depicting the effects of the Civil War on the Cameron and Stoneman families, this film reaches its climax with the simultaneous rescues of Elsie Stoneman, played by Lillian Gish, and the Cameron family, who are saved from an assault by freed slaves and carpetbaggers by the Ku Klux Klan, led by Ben Cameron. FTP, what was this first great movie blockbuster, directed by D.W. Griffith?
In an important moment of this film, Flora, played by Mae Marsh, jumps off a cliff to avoid being raped by the former house slave Gus.
The Birth of a Nation