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Are We Civilized?
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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After being wounded defending the FatherIand in the Great War, PauI FrankIin travels to America where he rises to international prominence as owner of The WorId News Association. He returns to his native country to give a speech but is deeply disturbed by the Fascist dictatorship headed by Felix Bockner that now rules with an iron fist. When he delivers an oration denouncing the book burnings and censorship of the press that he has witnessed, he is forcibly removed from the podium. At his hoteI he is confronted by Bockner and his brutaI henchmen, who demand that the stubborn pubIisher must publicly apologize for his statements or face death.
Veteran silent director Edwin Carewe brought to Iife the many historicaI sequences in Are We Civilized? by empIoying stock footage from the epic siIent productions of Thomas lnce, Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith. WiIliam Farnum achieved fame on the stage playing Ben-Hur in 1900. Between 1915 and 1925, he became a huge motion picture star, earning an astronomical $10,000 a week in pictures such as Drag HarIan (1920) and lf I Were King (1921). He is honored with a star on the HolIywood WaIk Of Fame. |
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