D. W. Griffith was still learning his craft when he took on the Bard with this adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Unable to call upon Shakespeare's words, Griffith resorts to physical comedy to deliver the crude message that to win the heart of a violently psychotic wife one has to pretend to be even more violently psychotic than her. Florence Lawrence and Arthur V. Johnson look like they had a lot of fun banging heads together.
Review of The Taming of the Shrew
