Preston Sturges and four by Elliott J. Clawson.) Though he had a thirty-year Hollywood career, Sturges' greatest comedies were filmed in a furious five-year burst of activity from 1939 to 1944, during which he turned out "The Great McGinty", "Christmas in July", "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", "The Palm Beach Story", "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero". Half a century later, four of these – "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", "The Palm Beach Story" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" – were chosen by the American Film Institute as being among the 100 funniest American films. The film
The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Thomas Dixon, Jr., and is a sequel to the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation", directed by D. W. Griffith. Dixon, Jr. attempted to cash in on the success of the controversial first film. "The Fall of a Nation" is considered to be the first ever film sequel. Based upon "The Fall of a Nation", written by the director, the film is now considered lost. "The Fall of a Nation" is an attack on the pacifism of William Jennings Bryan