Jul 11th   

Orphans of the Storm***                         

(US 1921)

D.W. Griffith. 150m. bw. silent

Two adopted sisters find their lives torn apart by the oncoming French Revolution.
Stirring historical melodrama with all the usual quaint Griffith characteristics, taking his own political slant (with a message against Bolshevism then slightly prevalent in America), but doing for the French Revolution what he did for the Civil War in The Birth of a Nation.

Written by: Gaston de Tolignac (D.W. Griffith), based on the novel "The Two Orphans" by Adolphe d'Ennery, Eugene Cormon.
Producer/Director: D.W. Griffith.
 Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Shildrkraut, Monte Blue (as Danton), Sidney Herbert (as Robespierre), Katherine Emmet, Franke Losee, Leslie King, Lucille La Verne, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Puglia, Creighton Hale.
Photography: Paul H. Allen, Billy Bitzer, Hendrik Sartou.
Art Direction: Charles M. Kirk.

Preceded by:

Tom and Jerry at the Hollywood Bowl***

(US 1950. 7m.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)