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A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market in wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread.
A Corner in Wheat: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson. An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
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- Short, Crime, Drama
- D.W. Griffith
- 1909-12-13
Dec 31, 2014 · A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 short film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread.
Apr 14, 2020 · One of the first pastoral films. A greedy gentleman-farmer manipulates cereal prices for his own profit. The disastrous consequences for the landworkers are ...
- 16 min
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- CINEMATEK
Jun 13, 2001 · A Corner in Wheat is a little meditation on capitalism, derived from Frank Norris, weaving together narrative fragments linked by their relation to wheat. The film begins with farmers sowing grain and taking their meager harvest to market.
- Erik Ulman
Dec 4, 2020 · Rather improbably, a granary owner has managed to corner the entire world market for wheat, so he is able to screw-down the earnings of cereal farmers, while doubling the price of bread, reducing the poor to desperate straits.
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Its theme was wheat: how it's grown, distributed and consumed. Griffith achieves a surprising sense of movement from a single stationary camera, and by building drama with the use of intercut...
- 14 min
- 28K
- Library of Congress
