This short drama captures the crushing poverty and the hustle and bustle of life on New York’s Lower East Side through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Ruth (Dorothy West) flees the ghetto for the countryside, where she meets a kind and handsome young farmer. Griffith shot some of the film on the street outside his studio.
“Rivington Street,” Griffith wrote at the time “was the lively one, eternally jammed with pushcart peddlers hawking their wares. They had every imaginable commodity, from a needle to a wedding outfit. Emotional, tempestuous, harrowing Rivington Street was perpetually a steaming, bubbling pot of human flesh.”
Directed by D. W. Griffith, USA, 1910, silent with English inter-titles. 115th anniversary screening! Digitally restored by The National Center for Jewish Film. Score composed, performed and recorded by Swedish musicians Alexander Freudenthal and Hans Nyman.
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