The Brahma Diamond

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A pack of admirers won’t leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All…
A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted by the sheriff. A few years later the man, now an…

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director’s interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.

A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1908.
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian…
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren’s assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.