Intolerance
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Time Out says
Griffith's immensely influential silent film intercuts four parallel tales from history (spanning Babylon, Christ's Judaea, Reformation Europe, and turn-of-the-century America) to embroider a moral tapestry on personal, social and political repression through the ages. The thematic approach no longer works (if it ever did); the title cards are stiffly Victorian and sometimes laughably pedantic; but the visual poetry is overwhelming, especially in the massed crowd scenes. And the unbridled eroticism of the Babylon harem scenes demonstrate just what Hollywood lost when it later bowed to the censorship of the Hays Code.Author: CA
Release details
UK release:
1916
Duration:
12 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Bessie Love, Walter Long, Elmo Lincoln, Alfred Paget, Miriam Cooper, Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Seena Owen
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