Orphans of the Storm
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Orphans of the Storm (1921) is a film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.
This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major commercial success, after box office hits such as Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Broken Blossoms.
Like his earlier films, this used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. The film is about class conflict and a plea for inter class understanding and against destructive hatred. At one point in front of the Committee of Public Safety a main character pleas, "Yes I am an aristocrat, but a friend of the people."
The film is a remake of the lost Theda Bara film The Two Orphans (1915).
[edit] Cast
- Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard
- Dorothy Gish as Louise
- Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey
- Frank Losee as Count de Linières
- Catherine Emmet as Countess de Linières
- Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
- Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
- Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard
- Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
- Creighton Hale as Picard
- Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not
- Monte Blue as Danton
- Sidney Herbert as Robespierre
- Lee Kohlmar as Louis XVI
- Louis Wolheim as Executioner
