Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Josef Schildkraut, Creighton Hale, Monte Blue, Sidney Herbert, Lucille La Verne, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Puglia, Morgan Wallace, Frank Losee, Leslie King, Catherine Emmett. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1921. Adapted from The two orphans, by A. D'Ennery. Special features: Filmed introduction by Orson Wells; footeage taken at D.W. Griffith's funeral; radio eulogy for Griffith by Erich von Stroheim; portfolio of Griffith photographs; Rescued from the eagle's nest (1908), a rare film starring D.W. Griffith the actor; "The story of David Wark Griffith", a biography of Griffith published in Photoplay Magazine in 1916.
Summary:
Two girls, raised as sisters, arrive in Paris on the eve of the French revolution only to be cruelly and tragically separated.
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