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Disfigurement Major 
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TITLE |
Drums of Love (1928) |
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DISABILITY |
Disfigurement Curved spine |
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After the
Italian tragedy Francesca da Rimini |
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Set in 18th
Century Portugese South America. |
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A Duke is
entering into an arranged marriage with the much |
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younger
daughter of a political rival. But she doesn't know he |
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is so old
and has a distorted spine. However the Duke sends |
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his younger,
and good looking brother ahead of him and the |
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two fall in
love. A courtier spies on them, informs the Duke |
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and he kills
them both and then himself. But when the tragic |
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ending
didn't go down well with preview audiences Griffith re- |
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shot it
allowing the young couple to live though the disabled |
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Notes
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