D. W. Griffith's

INTOLERANCE(1916)
 
 

The most spectacular film of all time...
 
 

The Great Court at Babylon

The glory of ancient Babylon.
 
 

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish as "The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle".
 
 

Howard Gaye as Jesus Christ

The wedding feast at Cana (the Judean Story).
 
 

Constance Talmadge as Mountain GirlAlfred Paget and Seena Owen

Constance Talmadge    Alfred Paget as Belshazzar
      as Mountain Girl    Seena Owen as Princess Beloved
 
 
 
 
 
 

Babylonian feast set in the sixth century B.C.

Babylonians feasting as the city falls (the Babylonian Story).
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cyrus vs. Belshazzar

Persian forces lay siege to Babylon (the Babylonian Story).
 
 

Click here for more photos from Intolerance.
 
 

Click here to read a review by Robert K. Klepper.
 
 

For more information on Intolerance read:

D.W. Griffith's Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision

by William M. Drew.

Photo Sources:

D.W.Griffith's Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision by William M. Drew, McFarland, 1986.
Movie Parade by Paul Rotha, The Studio Publications, 1936.
A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum, Grosset & Dunlap, 1953.
 
 


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Last modified on December 9, 1997 by Gilda Tabarez at Henning7@aol.com
 
 
 
 

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