Intolerance
Summary:
Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives of a poor but happily married couple are disrupted by the misguided interference ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Lillian Gish - (The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle)
Mae Marsh - (The Dear One)
Robert Harron - (The Boy)
Miriam Cooper - (The Friendless One)
Walter Long - (The Musketeer of the Slums)
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Review:
Stung by criticism of The Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W. Griffith decided to add three stories to his new feature about modern social inhumanity to create a vast epic discourse against the evils of intolerance. Even more ambitious in scale and structure than The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance moves forward through cross-cutting among fo... Continue >>
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