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DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 7, 1999
• R2: 27 Dec 2000
Budget $2,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 43 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Triangle Film Corporation, Wark Producing Corp.
Studio Wark
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Other Titles
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages
• Intolerance
• The Mother and the Law
• Intolerance: A Sun-Play of the Ages
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
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Genre: Drama, Epic, Suspense, Murder, Political, Society, Melodrama, Police, Marriage, Infidelity, Thieves, Gangsters, Prison, Law
Tagline: - A Sun Play of the Ages -
Plot: Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity’s intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the "modern" one, about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle ("the uniter of the here and hereafter") links the stories. At one point, angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle, making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to THE BIRTH OF A NATION as a message of global peace and love (and an answer to his critics’ accusations of racism). For a nation poised to enter World War I, this was perhaps the wrong message, and INTOLERANCE opened to mixed reviews and poor attendance. It is now rightly recognized as a unique work of cinematic art. The restored version includes color-tinted scenes.
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D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, Way Down East |
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D.W. Griffith
Hoodoo Ann, Diane of the Follies, Daphne and the Pirate | Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Women, San Francisco |
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Mae Marsh
The Birth of a Nation, Fort Apache, 3 Godfathers | Robert Harron
The Birth of a Nation, The Girl and Her Trust, A Corner in Wheat | F.A. Turner
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Her Official Fathers | Sam De Grasse
The Black Pirate, The Man Who Laughs, The King of Kings | Vera Lewis
King Kong, The Roaring Twenties, Edge of Darkness | Mary Alden
The Birth of a Nation, Hell's House, The Plastic Age | | |
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| Music By |
Carl Davis
The General, The Phantom of the Opera, Greed | | D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, Way Down East |
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