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Movie Info. Synopsis D.W. Griffith's epic intercuts between four separate stories about man's inhumanity to man. In Babylon, pacifist Prince Belshazzar is brought down...
Dec 31, 2014 · Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history. Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era. The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages."
The film consists of four distinct, but parallel, stories—intercut with increasing frequency as the film builds to a climax—that demonstrate mankind’s persistent intolerance throughout the ages.
This major innovation in screen narrative tells four stories about social injustice in parallel: 1. "The Modern Story" of a working man wrongly accused of a crime was later issued as a separate...
Intolerance: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner. The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
In part a thinly-veiled indictment of those who criticized The Birth of a Nation, in part a continued response to the perceived loss of Southern pride and personal dignity, and in part a loose framework upon which to make a single behemoth out of four separate films, Intolerance has few equals in film history for its sheer resourcefulness and ...
The movie is the greatest extravaganza and the greatest folly in movie history, an epic celebration of the potentialities of the new medium -- lyrical, passionate, and grandiose. Full Review |...
