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Four studies of intolerance and injustice from different periods of history. Features 'The Modern Story', 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Judean Story' and 'The French Story. Silent. Tinted.

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ProducerD.W. Griffith

EAN5060000404241

eBay Product ID (ePID)3941720

Product Key Features

ActorRobert Harron, Constance Talmadge, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Eugene Pallette, Elmo Lincoln

Aspect RatioFull Screen

Film/TV TitleIntolerance (Silent)

DirectorD.W. Griffith

Release Year2000

FormatDVD

FeaturesBlack & White, Profile of Dw Driffith\Each Story Is Enabled for Play in Its Entirety, Widescreen

GenreDrama, General

Run Time177 Mins

Additional Product Features

CertificatePG

Number of Discs1

ComposerD.W. Griffith, Joseph Carl Breil, Carl Davis

Additional InformationSilent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the "modern" one, about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle ("the uniter of the here and hereafter") links the stories. At one point, angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle, making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to THE BIRTH OF A NATION as a message of global peace and love (and an answer to his critics' accusations of racism). For a nation poised to enter World War I, this was perhaps the wrong message, and INTOLERANCE opened to mixed reviews and poor attendance. It is now rightly recognized as a unique work of cinematic art. The restored version includes color-tinted scenes.

ScreenwriterTod Browning, D.W. Griffith

CinematographerG.W. Bitzer, Karl Brown

EditorJames Smith, D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Rose Smith

Movie/TV TitleIntolerance (Silent)