America (1924 film)

America
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byRobert W. Chambers
Produced byD. W. Griffith
StarringCarol Dempster
Neil Hamilton
Lionel Barrymore
CinematographyGeorge Bitzer
Marcel Le Picard
Hendrik Sartov
Harold S. Sintzenich
Edited byJames Smith
Rose Smith
Music byJoseph Carl Breil
Adolph Fink
Production
company
D. W. Griffith Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 21, 1924 (1924-02-21)
Running time
141 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$795,000[1]
Box office$1,750,000[1]
The full film

America, also called Love and Sacrifice, is a 1924 American silent historical war romance film. It describes the heroic story of the events during the American Revolutionary War, in which filmmaker D. W. Griffith created a film adaptation of Robert W. Chambers' 1905 novel The Reckoning. The plot mainly centers itself on the Northern theatre of the war in New York, with romance spliced into the individual movie scenes.[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b "Griffith's 20 Year Record". Variety. September 5, 1928. p. 12. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  2. ^ David Wark Griffith; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1924). Gerrit J. Lloyd (ed.). D.W. Griffith Presents America. D.W. Griffith Inc.
  3. ^ Guneratne, Anthony R. (2008). Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity (illustrated ed.). Macmillan. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4039-6788-6.
  4. ^ Talbot, Daniel (1975). Daniel Talbot (ed.). Film, an Anthology (5 ed.). University of California Press. pp. 342 343. ISBN 978-0-520-01251-6. America, 1924 film.
  5. ^ "Silent Film Sources Review". Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
  6. ^ Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol. 1 A-FLA, p. 137, edited by Frank N. Magill c. 1982; ISBN 0-89356-240-8 (3 book set; ISBN 0-89356-239-4)