| | True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD
Black & White; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English TRUE HEART SUSIE: In this silent romantic drama from the great D.W. Griffith (WAY DOWN EAST, THE BIRTH OF A NATION), an innocent, good hearted young woman (Lillian Gish) makes countless sacrifices to promote the fortunes of her ignorant love, William Jenkins (Robert Harron). For one thing, she finances his ecclesiastical education, though it means sending him off to college where she can't be with him. Of course he returns educated and worldly, ignoring her worse than ever, even choosing to marry another woman--"sophisticated" Bettina Hopkins (Clarine Seymour). Naturally stoic Susie never bothers to explain all she's done for him; she even hides Betty's extra-marital affairs from her beloved William's eyes. Amid the pastoral splendor of their small town, she prefers to suffer.
HOODOO ANN: A young, unfortunate girl in an orphanage is told by the Black Cindy, the cook, that she is "hoodooed" -- doomed to bad luck! After she rescues another child from the orphanage during a fire, her luck changes and she is adopted by a wealthy family. But how long will it be before her hoodoo catches up to her? HOODOO ANN was produced by D.W. Griffith under his pseudonym, "Granville Warwick."
This is the only Clarine Seymour video. True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann | List Price | $24.99 (You save $6.10) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1919 | | All Time Sales Rank |  68593  | | CD Universe Part number | 7443201 | | Catalog number | 3846 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 28, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 86 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Black & White | | Movie Details | Tinted; Full Frame; Black & White; Silent |
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann Review
GuidelinesRemember to focus your comments on True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD. Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy. To submit your review, please fill out the above form and click "Submit Review." A staff member will then verify your review meets our guidelines. Upon approval, your review will be published within a few days. Please do not use this form to comment on web site errors or for order related questions. If you have concerns of this nature, please contact customer service by filling out this form.
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD In 1918-1919, D. W. Griffith turned from spectacles such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance and Hearts of the World to smaller films, which he called his "short story series." Among these is True Heart Susie. "There are those of us who consider True Heart Susie to be Griffith's masterpiece," writes Tom Gunning in his notes for a 2006 screening at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. He goes on to praise the "narrative structure and point of view, as well as the fine details of performance, framing, and even the use of intertitles that makes a seemingly modest film such as this appear nearly incandescent in its confessional and emotional power." In an almost mythical American arcadia, Lillian Gish portrays a pure, prim girl who so loves her childhood sweetheart (Griffith's most charming boyish hero, Robert Harron) that she sells the family cow to anonymously finance his higher education, only to lose him to a more "modern" woman (Clarine Seymour) when he comes home. Gish's performance is among her best, her face what Gunning calls a "battleground of emotions, staging complete and progressive dramas of realization, recognition and despair."
As a bonus feature we offer Hoodoo Ann. This light comedy is Griffith-supervised and scripted (using the pseudonym Granville Warwick), although the actual direction is by Lloyd Ingraham. Mae Marsh is paired with Robert Harron; the actors had been often partnered since Biograph days, concurrently were in the modern story of Intolerance and continued to play leads together until Miss Marsh left the company at the end of 1916. Although the plot is a tangle of unlikely coincidence, the performers make it work, and "it is filled with those little touches for which Fine Arts pictures are famous," in the words of an original review.
Source: Image Entertainment Inc.
NTSC
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - Silent/Music
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: HOODOO ANN
Purchase True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Castle Of Cagliostro DVD (1979) Widescreen
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann video
 $12.85  
The feature film debut of Hayao Miyazaki (NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND, PRINCESS MONONOKE), THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO depicts one adventure of the master thief Lupin and his rough-around-the-edges gunman, Jigen. Something of a cross between Batman, James Bond, and Cary Grant's character in TO CATCH A THIEF, Lupin is a suave ladies' man who is also given to feats of athletic daring, aided by a gadget filled belt that gets him out of more than a few scrapes. The plot has Lupin and Jigen traveling to the sleepy little country of Cagliostro and coming to the aid of the unwilling fiance of the diabolical Count Cagliostro. ...
| | Floating DVD (1997) Widescreen
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann film
$10.15 
A volatile and ambitious coming-of-age drama, FLOATING is the story of Van (Reedus), ...
| | Boondock Saints DVD (1999)
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann review
$10.29 
Fraternal twins Conner (Flanery - SUICIDE KINGS) and Murphey (Reedus - GOSSIP) MacMannus are on a mission from God to rid Boston of crime. However, instead of signing up for the police force, these hard-drinking Irish-American ...
| | Emmanuelle In Space Collection DVDs (1999) Unrated
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD
$53.75
| | Planetes - Complete Collection DVDs (2003) Subtitled
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann movie DVD
$32.75 
Director Goro Taniguchi (INFINITE RYVIUS, S-CRY-ED) fashions another imaginative take on intergalactic space travel in his sci-fi series PLANETES. In the year 2075, travel between the earth, moon, and various space stations has become a routine part of human existence. But the increased traffic leaves behind ...
| | Deceived DVD (1991) Buena Vista Home Entertainment
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann video
$10.29
| | Shotgun Slade DVDs (1959) Timeless Media Group
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann film
$6.45
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Russian Front 1941-1945: The Road To Stalingrad DVD (1941)
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann review
$9.75
| | Ufc Boxset DVDs (2007) Full Frame
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD
$28.29
| | Would I Lie To You? DVD (2007) Widescreen
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann movie DVD
$16.29
| | History Of The Marines DVDs (2008) Box Set
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann video
$6.85
| | 2 Minutes Later DVD (2007) Widescreen
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann film
$13.09
| | Alias - The Complete Second Season DVDs (2001)
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann review
$23.45
Jennifer Garner stars in this television series as Sydney Bristow, a 26 year-old graduate student ...
| | Yay! Planes DVD (2009)
True Heart Susie/Hoodoo Ann DVD
$10.15
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Email a Friend
