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The Unveiling
UNITED STATES · 1911

The Unveiling

D.W. Griffith
coming of age maternal love social deception bohemian lifestyle romantic conflict
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Synopsis

The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his boyhood sweetheart and her mother come to spend a few days. The too-indulgent mother, however, is blind to the fact that the boy is spending most of his evenings in full dress, which should have told her that Bohemian society was engaging his attention. A s

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