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After offering some unsubtle social criticism (the poor's inability to buy bread contrasted with a wealthy wheat speculator's fancy dinner party, etc.), director D. W. Griffith kills off his villain by accidentally burying him in a grain elevator. Perhaps if Griffith had made a film called "Corner in Meat," the evil rich guy would be ground up in a sausage factory. However satisfying it may seem, offing the rich in freak accidents is hardly a serious response to a society's gross inequality -- and this kind of shallow evasion kills the film as well.
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