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

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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