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The Mender of the Nets
UNITED STATES · 1912

The Mender of the Nets

D.W. Griffith
love triangle social class honor and jealousy domestic conflict working-class life
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Synopsis

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

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