"A dramatic epic" 28 December 1921 Drama, History, Romance 150 mins
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard
Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard
Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey
Creighton Hale as Picard
Monte Blue as Danton
Sidney Herbert as Robespierre
Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
Frank Puglia as Pierre
Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
Frank Losee as Count de Linieres
Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not
Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres
Flora Finch as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Louis Wolheim as Executioner (uncredited)
Marcia Harris as Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith Director
Rose Smith Editor
Herbert Sutch Assistant Director
James Smith Editor
D.W. Griffith Producer
William Frederick Peters Original Music Composer
D.W. Griffith Screenplay
Charles M. Kirk Art Direction
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
Paul H. Allen Director of Photography
Hendrik Sartov Director of Photography
Eugène Cormon Theatre Play
Adolphe d'Ennery Theatre Play
Edward Scholl Set Designer
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Denmark 13 March 1923
Finland 18 February 1923
Portugal 04 January 1926
Sweden 30 January 1923
United States 28 December 1921
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