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Release Date:
2 June 1916 (USA) moreTagline:
THE GREATEST PRODUCTION OF MODERN TIMES morePlot:
Allegorical film about peace. A king starts a war, many of the women are against it, people are pressed into service... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
Thomas Ince, the Auteur moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Howard C. Hickman | ... | Count Ferdinand |
| Enid Markey | ... | Katheryn Haldemann |
| Lola May | ... | Queen Engenie |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kate Bruce | ... | A Mother |
| J. Frank Burke | ... | Luther Rolf, the peace advocate |
| Claire Du Brey | ||
| George Fisher | ... | The Christ |
| Charles K. French | ... | The Prime Minister |
| Herschel Mayall | ... | The King of Wredpryd |
| Fanny Midgley | ||
| J. Barney Sherry | ... | The Blacksmith |
| Jerome Storm | ... | The Blacksmith's Son |
| Ethel Ullman | ... | The Blacksmith's Daughter |
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78 minCountry:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
SilentFilming Locations:
Inceville, Santa Ynez Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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Thomas H. Ince was one of the independents, who established Hollywood as the motion picture capital of the world to avoid the strong-arm of the Motion Picture Patents Company. He introduced the studio system: the assembly-line production of movies headed by producers. William S. Hart Westerns are probably Inceville's most notable product. They're certainly better than this, 'Civilization,' which, I suppose, must have been a more personal product than usual for Ince, with its obvious pacifist message.
In this fictionalization of the Great War, a German commander commits treason, sabotages his submarine and kills the crew to prevent the torpedoing of the Lusitania. It takes Christ's second coming to affect the German King, though. The story is ridiculous, with overdone morality and sentimentality, mawkish Christian allegory and over-use of intertitles. On the other hand, there is some nice photography, and the battle scenes, with explosions and smoke, are well edited, but that's merely the craftsmanship one should expect from the assembly line.