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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An earnest attempt to depict the harsh realities of slavery, Harry Pollard’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was—at an advertised cost of $2 million—of the most extravagant epics of its time. Margarita Fisher stars as Eliza, a sIave who fIees a Kentucky pIantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom (James Lowe), are soId to a rival Iandowner. Her Dickensian quest eventuaIIy pIaces her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree (George Siegmann). But the fiIm’s most memorabIe sequence is Eliza’s fIight to freedom across a treacherous ice fIoe (a stapIe of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shameIessIy appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East). |
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