Videodisc release of the 1916 motion picture. Special features: Filmed introduction by Orson Welles ; excerpts from Cabiria (1911), and The last days of Pompeii (1914), two films that inspired Griffith to make Intolerance ; text excerpts from "Away with meddlers: a declaration of independence" and "the Rise and fall of free speech in America," two pamphlets published by D.W. Griffith at the time of Intolerance's release ; excerpt from "The fall of Babylon" (1916) which offers an alternate (happy) ending to the Babylonian sequence ; about the score. Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Bessie Love, Seena Owen, Alfred Paget, Mirian Cooper, Erich Von Stroheim.
Summary:
Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
Series:
Griffith masterworks
OCLC:
(OCoLC)52997342
Locations:
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)
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