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UNITED STATES · 1910

As the Bells Rang Out

D.W. Griffith
family sacrifice law and justice wedding ceremony redemption class conflict
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Synopsis

If a Wall Street financier is to escape arrest, he must flee his house at once. He chooses instead to stay in order to watch his daughter get married. Thanks to kindhearted police, he is permitted to take part in the wedding while they wait discreetly in the next room, ready to take him away.

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