''The Modern Prodigal'' is a 1910 American short

drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

silent

black-and-white film Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, a ...

directed by

D. W. Griffith David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the n ...

. It is based on a novel by

Bess Meredyth Bess Meredyth (born Helen Elizabeth MacGlashan, February 12, 1890 – July 13, 1969) was a screenwriter and silent film actress. The wife of film director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote '' The Affairs of Cellini'' (1934) and adapted '' The Unsus ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Modern Prodigal 1910 films 1910 drama films 1910 short films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films Biograph Company films Films based on American novels Short films directed by D. W. Griffith Films shot in New York (state) Silent American drama short films Surviving American silent films English-language drama short films