Bolshevism on Trial (1919)
- Directed by
- Harley Knoles
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent drama warns against the rise of Bolshevism in America. It follows a community where socialist ideas threaten family and order before being put on trial.
propagandisticstagedmelodramaticpatrioticslow-pacedearnestdatedstiff
What happens
Bolshevism on Trial is a 1919 American silent propaganda film made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Corporation. Directed by Harley Knoles from a screenplay by Harry Chandlee, it is based on the 1909 novel Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California by Thomas Dixon, author of the novels The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and The Leopard's Spots that served as the basis for The Birth of a Nation. It premiered in April 1919 during the First Red Scare. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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