America (1924 film)
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America, also called Love and Sacrifice, is a 1924 American silent historical war romance film. It describes the heroic story of the events during the American Revolutionary War, in which filmmaker D. W. Griffith created a film adaptation of Robert W. Chambers' 1905 novel The Reckoning. The plot mainly centers itself on the Northern theatre of the war in New York, with romance spliced into the individual movie scenes.[2][3][4][5][6]
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Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
Written by | Robert W. Chambers |
Produced by | D. W. Griffith |
Starring | Carol Dempster Neil Hamilton Lionel Barrymore |
Cinematography | George Bitzer Marcel Le Picard Hendrik Sartov Harold S. Sintzenich |
Edited by | James Smith Rose Smith |
Music by | Joseph Carl Breil Adolph Fink |
Production company | D. W. Griffith Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 141 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | $795,000[1] |
Box office | $1,750,000[1] |
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