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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 presents four narratives, stretching from biblical to modern times, held together by themes of intolerance, man's inhumanity to man, hypocrisy, bigotry, religious hatred, persecution, discrimination, and injustice.
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.
Intolerance (Pt. 1) 1916 · 2 hr. PG. Drama · Documentary. In D.W. Griffith's superproduction, four stories are woven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and an early 20th Century drama. Starring: Constance Talmadge Erich von Stroheim. Directed by: D. W. Griffith.
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...
The pure, simple love between couples is threatened by other people’s ignorance throughout D.W. Griffith’s film epic Intolerance.
