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Orphans of the Storm (DVD, 1922)

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Actors: Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish. Henriette brings her blind sister, Louise, to Paris in hopes of a cure. During the Reign Of Terror, she is accused of consorting with the aristocracy, and condemned to the guillotine.

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An epic silent drama directed by the seminal American filmmaker DW Griffiths, who also created the landmark features Intolerance and Birth of a Nation. Lillian and Dorothy Gish star as two orphan sisters, Henriette and Louise Girard, who make their way to Paris in search of a cure for Louise's sudden blindness. But the French capital is a dangerous place for two naive young women, and Henriette is soon abducted by the villainous Marquis de Praille, who abandons Louise to fend for herself on the Parisian streets. Rescue for Henriette comes in the form of the Chevalier de Vaudrey but, as this is the late 1780s, it's a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire of the bloody, anti-aristocratic violence of the French Revolution. Can Henriette and her upper crust saviour survive the guillotine, and what is to become of Louise? The film was made on a 14-acre lot north of New York and features Griffiths' trademark attention to detail and vast set-pieces, including the storming of the Bastille, as well as a typically luminous performance from Lillian Gish. Aside from its theme of romantic adventure, the movie - one of the director's last successes - was a thinly veiled warning against the perils of class tensions; the turbulence of the Russian Revolution had taken place just three years earlier.