Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Lillian Gish
Henriette Girard
Dorothy Gish
Louise Girard
Joseph Schildkraut
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Frank Losee
Count de Linieres
Monte Blue
Danton
Katherine Emmet
Countess de Linieres
Sidney Herbert
Robespierre
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
D.W. Griffith
Director
Adolphe d'Ennery
Writer
Flora Finch
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Eugène Cormon
Writer
Louis Wolheim
Executioner (uncredited)
Marcia Harris
Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Lee Kohlmar
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Brian Benison
Composer
Louis F. Gottschalk
Composer
Kate Bruce
Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina
The Doctor (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 28, 1921
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution.
The last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish, it was a commercial failure compared to his earlier works, such as The Birth of a Nation (1915). Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). Griffith used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution to warn about 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 pleads, "Yes I am an aristocrat, but a friend of the people."
The film is based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon.