Synopsis
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Cast
- Lillian GishThe Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
- Mae MarshThe Dear One (Modern Story)
- Robert HarronThe Boy (Modern Story)
- F.A. TurnerThe Girl's Father (Modern Story)
- Sam De GrasseArthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
- Vera LewisMary T. Jenkins (Modern Story)
- Lillian LangdonMary, the Mother (Judean Story)
- Olga GreyMary Magdalene (Judean Story)
- Erich von RitzauFirst Pharisee (Judean Story)
- Bessie LoveThe Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
Recommendations
- 100
The Dissolve
Intolerance is thrilling and vital, a collision of historical periods that feels as earth-shaking as the movement of tectonic plates. - 100
Chicago Reader
Probably the most influential of all silent films after The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance launched ideas about associative editing that have been essential to the cinema ever since, from Soviet montage classics to recent American experimental films. And in the use of crosscutting and action to generate suspense, the film's climax hasn't been surpassed. - 100
CineVue
Intolerance may not be perfect, but with such gargantuan spectacle and timeless mastery of form on show, it is nigh on impossible not to be swept up by this centruy-spanning extravanganza and its medium-shaping impact. - 100
Empire
It may seem flawed in a number of ways to some people but this is monumental cinema and essential viewing for true film enthusiasts. - 100
The Guardian
A powerful humane statement and a towering work of art. - 100
Village Voice
The pure, simple love between couples is threatened by other people’s ignorance throughout D.W. Griffith’s film epic Intolerance. - 100
Chicago Reader
One of the great breakthroughs—the Ulysses of the cinema—and a powerful, moving experience in its own right. - 90
Variety
Intolerance reflects much credit to the wizard director, for it required no small amount of genuine art to consistently blend actors, horses, monkeys, geese, doves, acrobats and ballets into a composite presentation of a film classic.
