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| Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the "modern" one, about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle ("the uniter of the here and hereafter") links the stories. At one point, angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle, making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to THE BIRTH OF A NATION as a message of global peace and love (and an answer to his critics' accusations of racism). For a nation poised to enter... |
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Key Information
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| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Directors: |
D.W. Griffith |
| Actors: |
Constance Talmadge · Elmo Lincoln · Eugene Pallette · Mae Marsh · Robert Harron |
| UPC: |
014381467529, 014381583922, 017153200232, 018111234399, 026359056437, 089218428790, 738329004637, 738329026721 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 5min |
| Available Formats: |
DVD, VHS, VHS: COLOR |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense |
| Release Date: |
1916 |
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VHS Editions
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- VHS: COLOR
- 2hr 57min
- Kino on Video
- July 04, 1993
- Not Rated
- 738329004637
, - VHS
- 1hr 55min
- Nova Entertainment, Inc.
, - VHS
- 1hr 55min
- Republic Pictures Home Video
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 18min
- Nostalgia Family Video
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 4min
- Festival Films
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 50min
- Grapevine Video
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 55min
- HBO Home Video
- February 10, 1991
- Not Rated
- 026359056437
- Sound Features: HiFi, Digital, Stereo
, - VHS
- 2hr 5min
- Hollywood Home Theatre
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 5min
- Republic Pictures Home Video
- August 08, 1991
- Not Rated
- 017153200232
, - VHS
- 3hr 28min
- Video Yesteryear
- Not Rated
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
D.W. Griffith, Tod Browning |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/11/2002, p.24, Entertainment Weekly Staff): "...[With] miraculous cinematography, and charismatic performances...", (07/06/1990, p.F10, Kevin Thomas): "...There has never been a movie quite like INTOLERANCE, and few, if any, have been so influential...", (08/01/2002, p.60, Brad Stevens): "...Here Griffith's remarkable editing scheme takes the film into virtually abstract realms, making it also a large-scale meditation on the nature of cinematic space and narrative construction..." |
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