Intolerance (1916)
Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: (1) A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; (2) a Judean story: Christ’s mission and death; (3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572; and (4) a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC. Each story had its own tint in the original print. The scenes are linked by shots of a figure representing Eternal Motherhood, rocking a cradle.
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Cast:
- Spottiswoode Aitken
- Frank Bennett
- Elmer Clifton
- Miriam Cooper
- Josephine Crowell
- Max Davidson
- Sam De Grasse
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Howard Gaye
- Lillian Gish
- Robert Harron
- Joseph Henabery
- Lloyd Ingraham
- Lillian Langdon
- W. E. Lawrence
- Ralph Lewis
- Vera Lewis
- Elmo Lincoln
- Walter Long
- Bessie Love
- Mae Marsh
- Tully Marshall
- Seena Owen
- Alfred Paget
- Eugene Pallette
- George Siegmann
- Carl Stockdale
- Constance Talmadge
- Constance Talmadge
- Fred Turner
- George Walsh
- Margery Wilson
- Tom Wilson