America is a silent 1924 historical war romance film, describes the heroic story of the events during the Revolutionary war, in which filmmaker D. W. Griffith created a film adaptation of Robert W. Chambers’ novel The Reckoning. The plot mainly centers itself on the battles of the New York State, with romance sliced into the individual movie scenes. The story shifts between the British up in Northern New York, and the colonial patriots in Massachusetts and Virginia. Up in New York, a little remembered sub-plot takes place. British general Captain Walter Butler , a loyal and ruthless... supporter to the king, leads the Iroquois Native Americans in viciously barraging attacks at the settlers who are siding with the Revolution. In Lexington, Massachusetts, Nathan Holden works as an express rider and minute man for the Boston Committee of Public Safety. At a mission to deliver a dispatch to the Virginia legislature, he meets Nancy Montague and falls in love with her, but her father Justice Montague , a Tory judge, is not impressed with the rioter.
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| Release date: | 1924 |
| Directed by: | D. W. Griffith |
| Runtime: | 141 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | Billy Bitzer |
| Adapted from: | reckoning |