Griffith loved to shoot along the shoreline and on the water. His settings, always so lifelike, take on a poetic quality along the shore, and the sight of the motorboat knifing through the water to rescue Blanche Sweet, with its beautiful wake..... in any case, in this short, Griffith managed to combine his love of the shooting the water with one of his heart-in-your-throat chases, as the captain raises his gun to shoot Blanche's brains out before his mutinous crew can defile her.
Yes, it works. Rent the Kino dvd and see for yourself.
Although Griffith directed more than five hundred pictures, almost all of which survive, he has a vast corpus of works that are rarely seen, because so many people concentrate on his best features and perhaps a dozen of his best-known shorts. Kino is to be applauded for including a sizable number of his lesser-known, but equally powerful shorts in their most recent compilation, and for hiring John Mirsalis to do scores.
Yes, it works. Rent the Kino dvd and see for yourself.
Although Griffith directed more than five hundred pictures, almost all of which survive, he has a vast corpus of works that are rarely seen, because so many people concentrate on his best features and perhaps a dozen of his best-known shorts. Kino is to be applauded for including a sizable number of his lesser-known, but equally powerful shorts in their most recent compilation, and for hiring John Mirsalis to do scores.