The Mother and the Law

Year: 1919

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: English

Director: D.W. Griffith

Drama

After the modest box‑office performance of Intolerance, Griffith revisited the epic three years later, extracting two of its interwoven narratives as separate feature films and adding new footage. The second segment examines how crime, moral puritanism, and the clash between ruthless capitalists and striking workers devastate the lives of marginal Americans.

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