Clansman

The book it was based on, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan, was titled The Clansman - not quite as universal.

News 2012

All through the months of filming, the shooting script retained the title The Clansman.

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

All through the months of filming, the shooting script retained the title The Clansman.

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

All through the months of filming, the shooting script retained the title The Clansman.

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

The "Clansman" has gone ahead with its story of slander and misrepresentation and not altogether without making the impression that was originally intended by the author and his sympathizers.

Unwritten History 1919

At the conclusion of the screening, a euphoric Dixon stood and exclaimed, It’s too big to be called The Clansman!

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

At the conclusion of the screening, a euphoric Dixon stood and exclaimed, It’s too big to be called The Clansman!

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

At the conclusion of the screening, a euphoric Dixon stood and exclaimed, It’s too big to be called The Clansman!

The Movies That Changed Us Nick Clooney 2002

Yet Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has undertaken to do that very thing in an article written in defense of the "Clansman," published in the September number of the Metropolitan, in reply to the following criticism of his latest work in a Boston paper: "He reaches the acme of his sectional passions when he exalts the Ku Kluz Klan into an association of Southern patriots, when he must know, or else be strangely ignorant of American history, that its members were as arrant ruffians, desperadoes and scoundrels as ever went unhanged."

" Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers 1863

1915 - DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview

magic-city-news.com 2009