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Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh in... D.W. Griffith's...

Intolerance

( Catalog Number ID8074DS )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Color Tinted to the Original 1916 Specifications
Digital Stereo Organ Score by Gaylord Carter
Visual Essay by Russell Merritt
Extra Footage Cut from Original Release
Copyright Registration Frames
Publicity Material
Background & Production Photographs

Intolerance
1916 - 175 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Sometime during the shooting of the landmark Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives of a poor but happily married couple are disrupted by the misguided interference of a "social reform" group. A series of unfortunate circumstances culminates in the husband's being sentenced to the gallows, a fate averted by a nick-of-time rescue engineered by his wife. In the wake of the protests attending the racist content of Birth of a Nation, Griffith wanted to demonstrate the dangers of intolerance. Mother and the Law filled the bill to some extent, but it just wasn't "big" enough to suit his purposes. Thus, using Mother and the Law as merely the base of the film Griffith added three more plotlines and expanded his cinematic thesis into epic proportions. The four separate stories of Intolerance are symbolically linked by Lillian Gish as the Woman Who Rocks the Cradle ("uniter of the here and hereafter"). The "Modern Story" is essentially Mother and the Law; the "French Story" details the persecution of the Huguenots by Catherine de Medici (Josephine Crowell); the "Biblical Story" relates the last days of Jesus Christ (Howard Gaye); and the "Babylonian Story" concerns the defeat of King Belshazzar (Alfred Paget) by the hordes of Cyrus the Persian (George Siegmann).

Rather than being related chronologically, the four stories are told in parallel fashion, slowly at first, and then with increasing rapidity. The action in the film's final two reels leaps back and forth in time between Babylon, Calvary, 15th-century France and contemporary California. Described by one historian as "The only film fugue," Intolerance baffled many filmgoers of 1916 ----- and, indeed, it is still an exhausting, overwhelming experience, even for audiences accustomed to the split-second cutting and multilayered montage sequences popularized by Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Joel Schumacher and MTV. On a pure entertainment level, the Babylonian sequences are the most effective, played out against one of the largest, most elaborate exterior sets ever built for a single film. The most memorable character in this sequence is "The Mountain Girl," played by star-on-the-rise Constance Talmadge; when the Babylonian scenes were re-released as a separate feature in 1919, Talmadge's tragic death scene was altered to accommodate a happily-ever-after denouement. Other superb performances are delivered by Mae Marsh and Robert Harron in the Modern Story, and by Eugene Pallette and Margery Wilson in the French Story. Remarkably sophisticated in some scenes, appallingly naive in others, Intolerance is a mixed bag dramatically, but one cannot deny that it is also a work of cinematic genius. The film did poorly upon its first release, not so much because its continuity was difficult to follow as because it preached a gospel of tolerance and pacifism to a nation preparing to enter World War I. Currently available prints of Intolerance run anywhere from 178 to 208 minutes; while it may be rough sledding at times, it remains essential viewing for any serious student of film technique. ---- Hal Erickson

Stung by criticism of The Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W. Griffith decided to add three stories to his new feature about modern social inhumanity to create a vast epic discourse against the evils of intolerance. Even more ambitious in scale and structure than Birth of a Nation, Intolerance moves forward through cross-cutting among four tales of injustice: the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 16th century France, the crucifixion of Christ, a modern workers' strike, and a sto

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Cast for Intolerance

Lillian Gish - The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Mae Marsh - The Dear One
Robert Harron - The Boy
Miriam Cooper - The Friendless One
Walter Long - The Musketeer of the Slums
Tully Marshall - High Priest of Bel
Alfred Paget - Prince Belshazzar
Seena Owen - Attarea, the Prince's Beloved
Felix Modjeska - Bodyguard to the Princess
Loyola O'Connor - Attareo's Slave
Eugene Pallette - Prosper Latour
Vera Lewis - Mary T. Jenkins
Elmo Lincoln - Belshazzar's bodyguard
Ralph Lewis - The Governor
Marguerite Marsh - A Debutante Guest at the Ball
Mrs. Arthur Mackley - "Uplifters"
Bessie Love - The Bride of Cana
Wilfred Lucas
Jennifer Lee - Woman at Jenkins' Employees' Dance
Gunther von Ritzau - First Pharisee
Erich Von Stroheim - Second Pharisee
W.S. Van Dyke - A Wedding Guest
Fred Turner - The Girl's Father
Margery Wilson - Brown Eyes
George Walsh - The Bridegroom
Winifred Westover - The Favorite of Egibi
Eleanor Washington
Wallace Reid - Boy Killed in the Fighting
Howard Scott - A Babylonian Dandy
A.D. Sears - The Mercenary
Ruth St. Denis - Solo Dancer
Alma Rubens
Constance Talmadge - Girl from the Mountains
Carl Stockdale - King Nabonidus
George Siegmann - Cyrus the Persian
Pauline Starke - Harem Girl
Maxfield Stanley - Count d'Anjou
Tom Wilson - The Kindly Policeman
Elmer Clifton - The Rhapsode
Gino Corrado - The Runner
Edmund Burns - The 2nd Charioteer of the Priest of Bel
Kate Bruce - Babylonian Mother
Ruth Darling
Jack Cosgrove - Chief Eunuch
Josephine Crowell - Catherine de Medici
Donald Crisp - Extra
Max Davidson - The Kindly Neighbor
Mary Alden - "Uplifter" and Reformer
Frank Bennett - Charles IX
Spottiswood Aitken - Brown Eyes' Father
Tod Browning - Owner of the Racing Car
William Brown - The Warden
Barney Bernard - Prosecutor
Lucille Brown - "Uplifters"
Monte Blue - Strike Leader
Alberta Lee - Wife of the Kindly Neighbor
Joseph Henaberry - Adm. Coligny
Clyde Hopkins - Jenkins Secretary
Mildred Harris - Harem Girl
Ruth Handforth - Brown Eyes' M

Crew for Intolerance

Tod Browning - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer
Karl Brown - Cinematographer
James Smith - Editor
Rose Smith - Editor
D.W. Griffith - Production Designer / Composer (Music Score) / Producer / Screenwriter / Costume Designer / Editor / Director
Joseph Henaberry - First Assistant Director
Erich Von Stroheim - First Assistant Director

Feature Details

Title: Intolerance
Feature Release Date: 1916
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 175 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

Technical Details

Catalog Number: ID8074DS
UPC: 014381807462
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: Silent
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID8074DS-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed, Silent, Collector's LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint Condition with Gatefold Jacket with shrink-wrap separation

Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh in... D.W. Griffith's...

Intolerance

( Catalog Number ID8074DS )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Color Tinted to the Original 1916 Specifications
Digital Stereo Organ Score by Gaylord Carter
Visual Essay by Russell Merritt
Extra Footage Cut from Original Release
Copyright Registration Frames
Publicity Material
Background & Production Photographs

Intolerance
1916 - 175 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Sometime during the shooting of the landmark Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives of a poor but happily married couple are disrupted by the misguided interference of a "social reform" group. A series of unfortunate circumstances culminates in the husband's being sentenced to the gallows, a fate averted by a nick-of-time rescue engineered by his wife. In the wake of the protests attending the racist content of Birth of a Nation, Griffith wanted to demonstrate the dangers of intolerance. Mother and the Law filled the bill to some extent, but it just wasn't "big" enough to suit his purposes. Thus, using Mother and the Law as merely the base of the film Griffith added three more plotlines and expanded his cinematic thesis into epic proportions. The four separate stories of Intolerance are symbolically linked by Lillian Gish as the Woman Who Rocks the Cradle ("uniter of the here and hereafter"). The "Modern Story" is essentially Mother and the Law; the "French Story" details the persecution of the Huguenots by Catherine de Medici (Josephine Crowell); the "Biblical Story" relates the last days of Jesus Christ (Howard Gaye); and the "Babylonian Story" concerns the defeat of King Belshazzar (Alfred Paget) by the hordes of Cyrus the Persian (George Siegmann).

Rather than being related chronologically, the four stories are told in parallel fashion, slowly at first, and then with increasing rapidity. The action in the film's final two reels leaps back and forth in time between Babylon, Calvary, 15th-century France and contemporary California. Described by one historian as "The only film fugue," Intolerance baffled many filmgoers of 1916 ----- and, indeed, it is still an exhausting, overwhelming experience, even for audiences accustomed to the split-second cutting and multilayered montage sequences popularized by Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Joel Schumacher and MTV. On a pure entertainment level, the Babylonian sequences are the most effective, played out against one of the largest, most elaborate exterior sets ever built for a single film. The most memorable character in this sequence is "The Mountain Girl," played by star-on-the-rise Constance Talmadge; when the Babylonian scenes were re-released as a separate feature in 1919, Talmadge's tragic death scene was altered to accommodate a happily-ever-after denouement. Other superb performances are delivered by Mae Marsh and Robert Harron in the Modern Story, and by Eugene Pallette and Margery Wilson in the French Story. Remarkably sophisticated in some scenes, appallingly naive in others, Intolerance is a mixed bag dramatically, but one cannot deny that it is also a work of cinematic genius. The film did poorly upon its first release, not so much because its continuity was difficult to follow as because it preached a gospel of tolerance and pacifism to a nation preparing to enter World War I. Currently available prints of Intolerance run anywhere from 178 to 208 minutes; while it may be rough sledding at times, it remains essential viewing for any serious student of film technique. ---- Hal Erickson

Stung by criticism of The Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W. Griffith decided to add three stories to his new feature about modern social inhumanity to create a vast epic discourse against the evils of intolerance. Even more ambitious in scale and structure than Birth of a Nation, Intolerance moves forward through cross-cutting among four tales of injustice: the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 16th century France, the crucifixion of Christ, a modern workers' strike, and a sto

Thanks for Visiting DaDon's !

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Cast for Intolerance

Lillian Gish - The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Mae Marsh - The Dear One
Robert Harron - The Boy
Miriam Cooper - The Friendless One
Walter Long - The Musketeer of the Slums
Tully Marshall - High Priest of Bel
Alfred Paget - Prince Belshazzar
Seena Owen - Attarea, the Prince's Beloved
Felix Modjeska - Bodyguard to the Princess
Loyola O'Connor - Attareo's Slave
Eugene Pallette - Prosper Latour
Vera Lewis - Mary T. Jenkins
Elmo Lincoln - Belshazzar's bodyguard
Ralph Lewis - The Governor
Marguerite Marsh - A Debutante Guest at the Ball
Mrs. Arthur Mackley - "Uplifters"
Bessie Love - The Bride of Cana
Wilfred Lucas
Jennifer Lee - Woman at Jenkins' Employees' Dance
Gunther von Ritzau - First Pharisee
Erich Von Stroheim - Second Pharisee
W.S. Van Dyke - A Wedding Guest
Fred Turner - The Girl's Father
Margery Wilson - Brown Eyes
George Walsh - The Bridegroom
Winifred Westover - The Favorite of Egibi
Eleanor Washington
Wallace Reid - Boy Killed in the Fighting
Howard Scott - A Babylonian Dandy
A.D. Sears - The Mercenary
Ruth St. Denis - Solo Dancer
Alma Rubens
Constance Talmadge - Girl from the Mountains
Carl Stockdale - King Nabonidus
George Siegmann - Cyrus the Persian
Pauline Starke - Harem Girl
Maxfield Stanley - Count d'Anjou
Tom Wilson - The Kindly Policeman
Elmer Clifton - The Rhapsode
Gino Corrado - The Runner
Edmund Burns - The 2nd Charioteer of the Priest of Bel
Kate Bruce - Babylonian Mother
Ruth Darling
Jack Cosgrove - Chief Eunuch
Josephine Crowell - Catherine de Medici
Donald Crisp - Extra
Max Davidson - The Kindly Neighbor
Mary Alden - "Uplifter" and Reformer
Frank Bennett - Charles IX
Spottiswood Aitken - Brown Eyes' Father
Tod Browning - Owner of the Racing Car
William Brown - The Warden
Barney Bernard - Prosecutor
Lucille Brown - "Uplifters"
Monte Blue - Strike Leader
Alberta Lee - Wife of the Kindly Neighbor
Joseph Henaberry - Adm. Coligny
Clyde Hopkins - Jenkins Secretary
Mildred Harris - Harem Girl
Ruth Handforth - Brown Eyes' M

Crew for Intolerance

Tod Browning - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer
Karl Brown - Cinematographer
James Smith - Editor
Rose Smith - Editor
D.W. Griffith - Production Designer / Composer (Music Score) / Producer / Screenwriter / Costume Designer / Editor / Director
Joseph Henaberry - First Assistant Director
Erich Von Stroheim - First Assistant Director

Feature Details

Title: Intolerance
Feature Release Date: 1916
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 175 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

Technical Details

Catalog Number: ID8074DS
UPC: 014381807462
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: Silent
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

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