Intolerance : love's struggle throughout the ages /
Opening sequence title: D.W. Griffith presents Intolerance D.W. Griffith's intolerance Spanish title: Intolerancia
Wark Producing Corporation ; directed, produced and written by D.W. Griffith.
, United States
- 1 online resource (2 video files (approximately 87 min. each)) : sound, black and white.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1916. Summary from The films of D.W. Griffith by E. Wagenknecht and A. Slide. Technical credits from the IMDb database.
Cinematographer, G.W. Bitzer; editors, James Smith, Rose Smith, G.W. Griffith; music, Joseph Carl Breil. Cinematographer, G.W. Bitzer; editors, James Smith, Rose Smith, G.W. Griffith; music, Joseph Carl Breil.
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Fred Turner, Robert Harron, Sam De Grasse, Miriam Cooper, Howard Gaye, Bessie Love, George Walsh, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswoode Aitkin, Ruth Handforth, Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen.
Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. 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.
Silent, with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
Jesus Christ--Miracles--Drama. Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Drama. Jesus Christ--Teachings--Drama.
Poverty--Drama. Social problems--Drama. Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572--Drama.
Babylon (Extinct city)--Drama.
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