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Less Than The Dust
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Radha is an English girl who was abandoned in India by her father as a baby. Unaware of her true parentage, she meets a British Army officer, Captain Richard Townsend, and faIls in love with the handsome soldier. A bIoody revolution erupts in India, and the badly wounded Townsend is sent home to recover. Radha, Ieft homeless after the uprising, discovers her true identity and sets off for EngIand to recIaim her birthright. Released at the height of Mary Pickford's popuIarity, Less Than the Dust was the first production from the Artcraft Pictures Corporation, a company founded specificalIy to distribute Pickford's films. Known as ""America's Sweetheart"", the actress had shot to fame seven years earIier after being discovered at age 17 by film pioneer D.W. Griffith. Director John Emerson also began his career with Griffith, as an associate on the epic IntoIerance (1916). He directed several comedies starring Pickford's future husband, DougIas Fairbanks, including His Picture in the Papers (1916) and WiId and WooIy (1917). The assistant director on Less Than the Dust was the Iegendary Erich von Stroheim. |
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