Cast: Adolph Lestina
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Adolph Lestina. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 19
The Sunbeam (S)
1912 · Movie · 15 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Ynez Seabury · Kate Bruce · Claire McDowell · Gladys Egan
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27 votes
6.1
27 votes
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...
6.1
64 votes
6.1
64 votes
The Miser's Heart (S)
1911 · Movie · 18 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Linda Arvidson · Lionel Barrymore · William J. Butler · Donald Crisp
6.0
34 votes
6.0
34 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
The Mothering Heart
1913 · Movie · 29 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Walter Miller · Lillian Gish · Kate Bruce · Viola Barry
5.9
38 votes
5.9
38 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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What Shall We Do with Our Old? (S)
1911 · Movie · 17 min. · United States
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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Heart Beats of Long Ago (S)
1911 · Movie · 15 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast George Nichols · Wilfred Lucas · Linda Arvidson · Kate Bruce
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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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