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UNITED STATES · 1908

The Planter’s Wife

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood infidelity rural life temptation marital conflict seduction
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Synopsis

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".

Year1908
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
MovementClassical Hollywood
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