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Kate Bruce, Edward Dillon, Frank Evans, James Kirkwood, Charles Hill Mailes ... see more see more... , Owen Moore , George Nichols , Blanche Sweet , Henry B. Walthall , Frank Powell , Mack Sennett , Billy Quirk , Linda Arvidson , William J. Butler , Grace Henderson , Arthur V. Johnson , Jeanie Macpherson

A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues ... read more read more...to contrast the ironic differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

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G, 1 hr. 58 min.

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Release Date: December 13, 1909

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  • fb733768972
    September 23, 2011
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    One of D.W. griffith's most memorable short films about the price raise on bread in a town that can already barely afford their wheat to begin with. As townspeople come up with a brilliant ideas and prove action against this awful dispute, a lot can be taken from this seemed-to-b... read moree basic storyline. The silent acting is fantastic, the story seems to become complex as it is told; However, it is easily understood. This is exactly what short films need to be nowadays. Sure it can be confusing and there is not enough detail about what is really going on, but the real focus is how much appreciation you can have for this magnificent director.
  • staindslaved
    July 19, 2011
    staindslaved
    I've actually seen this. Doorman where's my prize? What can I say, it is what it is a quick little 10 minute short with a message of imperialism and industry taking advantage of the working class by needlessly jacking up the price of wheat. No famous imagery or historical sign... read moreificance it's amazing it's avoided falling into obscurity after all these years.
  • alice5mith
    March 7, 2010
    alice5mith
    Uses a variety of technics and orchestrates them beautifully to serve the idea of the film, but more on the emotional than aesthetical level.
  • bobbydiablo
    January 26, 2012
    bobbydiablo
    This was very eye opening for a lot of reasons: I knew several things about Griffith 1 that he was a southern racist and 2 a very talented film maker. But it also seems he was also an idealist in other venues and for his day a protagonist for Indian Americans and the poor that we... read morere taken advantage of by Wall Street. In this short film he highlights (based on a series of news articles) the plight of poor wheat farmers and urban poor who are at the mercy of unregulated Wall Street commodity traders who set the price of wheat. Literally buying at low-low prices crashing farmers into poverty and setting prices so high that bakers and others have to raise thier prices and in-poverishing the city poor while the Traders live like kings, Reminds me a lot of today's problems.
  • kenscheck
    September 21, 2011
    kenscheck
    D.W. Griffith directs a decent short film about the effects of greed and its plight on the worker and the common man. It has a decent message, and it is well shot.

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