The Massacre 1912 Cast: Charles Hill Mailes, Robert Harron, Blanche Sweet, Charles H. West, Spottiswood Aitken Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore Billy Bitzer -Cinematographer Summary: An exciting western adventure story and drama in one. The orphaned daughter (Blanche Sweet) of a farmer is raised by a step-father who subsequently seeks to marry her. She marries another man instead, and goes west with a wagon train with the man she really loves (Charles H. West) and their infant daughter. The wagon train is attacked by Indians and the family is separated -- after the cavalry has routed the Indians, the father searches for his wife and daughter and finds them alive, beneath the bodies of the homesteaders who were protecting them. www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES ) DW GRIFFITH AT BIOGRAPH BY IRA H. GALLEN What soon ends Griffith's association with the Biograph Company will be the events surrounding the p! roduction of three films THE BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH, THE MOTHERING HEART and JUDITH OF BETHULIA. All three are being made at the same time, each one was different and highly involved in scope and production value. They're made with the same cunning he used in his other battles with the front office. The question on the audiences lips was now reaching across all class boundaries; the DW Griffith method riveted them in their seats or had them sitting up on the edge of the seats, awaiting the outcome ...
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