They discovered a passageway to a western guardroom of Lonely Mountain that displayed the mummified remains of dozens of corpses (the last of their kin).The film was intended to combat pro-Nazi Fascist forces present in America with its story of a young female newspaper reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) who writes a fraudulent column after threatened with being fired.John woke up on the edge of town (next to the own sign) with a bloodied head after hitting a rock and suffering a concussion, and he was unable to remember who he was or how he got there.After the widespread controversy surrounding his racist masterpieceThe Birth of a Nation (1915), Griffith attempted to defensively answer his critics with this work.