Cast: Adolph Lestina

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Adolph Lestina. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The New York Hat (S)

1912 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles Hill Mailes · Kate Bruce · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis When Mrs. Harding dies, she leaves a mysterious letter to her pastor. The note tells how her cold, miserly husband worked her to death. She asks the pastor to administer a small trust which she has bequeathed her daughter so...

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64 votes

6.1

64 votes

An Unseen Enemy (S)

1912 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Dorothy Gish · Elmer Booth · Robert Harron

Synopsis The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in...

6.0

94 votes

6.0

94 votes

Through Darkened Vales (S)

1911 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Blanche Sweet · Grace Henderson · Charles West · Joseph Graybill

Synopsis Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and...

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A Timely Interception (S)

1913 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast W. Chrystie Miller · Lillian Gish · Robert Harron · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter’s wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be postponed and the money put to the more pressing need....

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The Burglar's Dilemma (S)

1912 · Movie · 15 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Henry B. Walthall · Robert Harron · Harry Carey

Synopsis In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the young intruder with murder. How...

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The Narrow Road (S)

1912 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Elmer Booth · Mary Pickford · Charles Hill Mailes · Jack Pickford

Synopsis Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them.

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His Mother's Son (S)

1913 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast W. Chrystie Miller · Jennie Lee · Walter Miller · Mae Marsh

Synopsis The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked. Lack of attention made her son dissolute, but later the sturdy stock of his mother...

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The Greatest Thing in Life

1918 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Butler · Lillian Gish · Robert Harron · Peaches Jackson

Synopsis Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, a giant of a vegetable peddler, but his...

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Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast W. Chrystie Miller · Claire McDowell · Adolph Lestina · George Nichols

Synopsis An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting...

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The Failure (S)

1911 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Wilfred Lucas · Dorothy Bernard · Lily Cahill · Edwin August

Synopsis A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes to help him recover his life, and eventually he realizes how steadfast she is.

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The Girl Who Stayed at Home

1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Adolph Lestina · Carol Dempster · Frances Parks · Richard Barthelmess

Synopsis Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

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Fate's Turning (S)

1911 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Charles West · Stephanie Longfellow · Grace Henderson · Dorothy Bernard

Synopsis A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman, and before she knows it, she's pregnant.

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A Romance of Happy Valley

1919 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Robert Harron · George Fawcett · Kate Bruce

Synopsis John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his...

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The Inner Circle (S)

1912 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Adolph Lestina · Jack Pickford · J. Jiquel Lanoe · Mary Pickford

Synopsis A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his wife is his little child, is reluctantly a member of a secret society existent among his countrymen. The active members of...

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The Love Flower

1920 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Carol Dempster · Richard Barthelmess · George MacQuarrie · Anders Randolf

Synopsis A man murders his wife's lovers, escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him.

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