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Director:
D.W. Griffith
Writers:
Adolphe d'Ennery (novel) &
Eugène Cormon (novel) ...
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Release Date:
28 December 1921 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Drama See more »
Plot:
Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever... See more » | Add synopsis »
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La Boheme
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User Reviews:
A Great Accomplishment See more (30 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)

Lillian Gish ... Henriette Girard

Dorothy Gish ... Louise Girard

Joseph Schildkraut ... Chevalier de Vaudrey
Frank Losee ... Count de Linieres
Katherine Emmet ... Countess de Linieres
Morgan Wallace ... Marquis de Praille

Lucille La Verne ... Mother Frochard
Sheldon Lewis ... Jacques Frochard
Frank Puglia ... Pierre Frochard
Creighton Hale ... Picard
Leslie King ... Jacques-Forget-Not
Monte Blue ... Danton
Sidney Herbert ... Robespierre
Lee Kohlmar ... King Louis XVI
Marcia Harris ... Henriette's landlady
Adolph Lestina ... Doctor
Kate Bruce ... Sister Genevieve
Flora Finch ... Starving peasant
Louis Wolheim ... Executioner
Kenny Delmar ... The Chevalier, as a boy
James Smith ... Dancer
Herbert Sutch ... Meat carver at fete
Rose Smith ... Dancer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nellie Battipaglia ... (uncredited)
Ruth Cleaver ... (uncredited)
Tove Danor ... (uncredited)
Dorothy McConnell ... (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor ... Party Guest (uncredited)
Frances Robinson ... Henriette as a Child (uncredited)
William J. Walsh ... (uncredited)
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Directed by
D.W. Griffith 
 
Writing credits
Adolphe d'Ennery (novel "Les deux orphelines") &
Eugène Cormon (novel "Les deux orphelines")

D.W. Griffith  (as Gaston de Tolignac)

Produced by
D.W. Griffith .... producer
 
Original Music by
Brian Benison (1996)
Louis F. Gottschalk 
John Lanchbery 
William Frederick Peters  (as William F. Peters)
 
Cinematography by
Paul H. Allen 
G.W. Bitzer 
Hendrik Sartov 
 
Film Editing by
James Smith 
Rose Smith 
 
Art Direction by
Charles M. Kirk 
 
Costume Design by
Herman Patrick Tappe (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Herbert Sutch .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Charles E. Boss .... stand-by painter
Edward Scholl .... set designer
Frank Wortman .... set builder
Joe Dibuono .... carpenter (uncredited)
 
Special Effects by
Edward Scholl .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Paul H. Allen .... assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Margaret Booth .... cutter
 
Other crew
Anatole Danashaw .... laboratory supervisor
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Árvák a viharban" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Órfas da Tempestade" - Brazil (DVD title)
"Ai dyo orfanai" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"As Duas Orfãs" - Portugal
"De föräldralösa" - Sweden (imdb display title)
"Dwie sieroty" - Poland
"Las dos huérfanas" - Spain (imdb display title)
"Le due orfanelle" - Italy
"Les deux orphelines" - France
"Myrskyn lapset" - Finland (informal literal title)
"Orpolapset" - Finland
"Zwei Waisen im Sturm" - Germany
"Zwei Waisen im Sturm der Zeiten" - Austria
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Runtime:
150 min | Germany:152 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
Florence, Tuscany, ItalySee more »
Company:
D.W. Griffith ProductionsSee more »

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Trivia:
D.W. Griffith used this movie as a means of commenting, obliquely, on contemporary politics of his time. He drew parallels between the anarchist mobs that overthrew the French aristocrats, and what he says in opening titles to the film are the present American dangers of succumbing to the kind of "anarchy and Bolshevism" he perceived in the recent Russian Revolution. It is a great historical irony that those Bolsheviks Griffith railed against were quite smitten with the director's incomparable ways of generating film tension in crosscutting as well as his cinematic means of conveying good and evil via sophisticated editing and framing techniques. As the father of film syntax Griffith was an enormous influence on the Soviet filmmakers Sergei M. Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, who were inspired by many of his films including the anti-Bolshevik Orphans of the Storm (1921).See more »
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22 out of 28 people found the following review useful.
A Great Accomplishment, 29 October 2001
Author: dave gersztyn from Warren Mi.

I sometimes feel that people who are not sympathetic to the silent era and its genre should not view or comment on them.

As a long-time maven of silent films, I have no problem placing myself in that era and enjoying these movies on their own terms. Much has changed since those days, and most folks simply cannot appreciate the simplicity AND complexity of photoplays without words.

This film is magnificent and entertaining. I am not a fan of most "period pieces", but this transcends the typical fare. Check it out.

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