Film · Biograph · 1911
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Enoch Arden
79Worth an evening.
He comes home to a remarried wife and leaves, and that leaving is the mercy.
The review
Tennyson, cut down by Griffith to two reels. A sailor is wrecked for years. He comes home and finds his wife remarried. He will not break that household. I knew the outline, and the decision still landed. The leaving is the mercy.
A house can watch it. He does not reclaim what the years took. I'd put this on when you want a man stopped by his own conscience, not by a chase. Plenty of pictures from this stretch would have handed him the house. This one doesn't.
Journal
Keep Enoch Arden in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 79. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 79
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 79. What you gain is republic: A state that wants the inner yes.
The eight
- 7Industry
He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.
- 9Household
He finds his wife remarried and will not break the house she has.
- 9Piety
Conscience stops him; the leaving is the mercy, not a reclaiming.
- 8Courage
He gives up the wife and home the years took, which he would miss.
- 6Republic
He treats the new marriage as a bond he owes, not a claim to force.
- 8Temperance
He puts down the want to take back what the years already spent.
- 8Truth
He does not lie his way into a house that now belongs to another.
- 8Stewardship
What he leaves is a household still standing, not one he broke.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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