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Intolerance (1916) (1916)

Lillian Gish , Douglas Fairbanks , D.W. Griffith  |  NR |  DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Spottiswoode Aitken, Mary Alden, Frank Bennett
  • Directors: D.W. Griffith
  • Writers: D.W. Griffith, Anita Loos, Frank E. Woods, Hettie Grey Baker, Mary H. O'Connor
  • Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Silent
  • Language: English (Unknown)
  • Dubbed: Japanese
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Kino Video
  • DVD Release Date: December 10, 2002
  • Run Time: 197 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007CVS8
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,450 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Intolerance (1916)" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Filmed introduction by Orson Welles
  • Excerpts from Cabiria (1914) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1914)
  • Text excerpts from "Away with Meddlers: A Declaration of Independence" and "The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America," two pamphlets published by D.W. Griffith at the time of Intolerance's release
  • Excerpt of The Fall of Babylon (1916), which offers an alternate (happy) ending to the Babylonian sequence
  • About the score

Editorial Reviews

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After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's "king of the world," mounted this melodramatic spectacle of "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages," four stories that illustrate "how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity." Critic Heywood Broun, upon the film's release, probably said it best: "Quite the most marvelous thing which has been put on the screen, but as a theory of life it is trite." But what's on the screen is dazzling!

Griffith interweaves the four parallel stories set, respectively, in the modern era (fuddy-duddy reformers and a workers' strike), Jerusalem (Christ's crucifixion), 1572 Paris (a "hotbed" of persecution against the Huguenots), and ancient Babylon. No collection of silent films is complete without this landmark, awe-inspiring epic, which really does boast a cast of thousands (the most memorable of which is Constance Talmadge as the spunky Mountain Girl). The fall of Babylon ranks with one of the great action set pieces, complete with racing chariots, a nifty decapitation (at the hands of Elmo Lincoln, the man who would be Tarzan), and falls from what appear to be incredible heights. The edge-of-your-seat climax to the modern story, a race against time to save an innocent young man from the electric chair, is another bravura sequence. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a contemporary drama, all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale. Through the juxtaposition of these well known sagas, Griffith joyously makes clear his markedly deterministic view of history, namely that the suffering of the innocents makes possible the salvation of the current generation, symbolized by the boy in the modern love story.

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If your a silent film buff, this has to be in your collection, as well as, "The Birth of a Nation". "brintinacx"  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
Is "Intolerance " a great film ? Dirk De Bruyne  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
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65 of 68 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars D.W. Griffith and INTOLERANCE In The 21st Century. February 14, 2006
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Imagine that Steven Spielberg was no longer directing movies and that WAR OF THE WORLDS would be the one film he is remembered for. Would that be a fair assessment of his career? Absolutely not but that is what has happened to cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith. The film he is remembered for today is the 1915 BIRTH OF A NATION which was the first important American epic. Unfortunately its source material THE CLANSMAN (the film's original title) is a Southern view of the Civil War which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and is extremely racist (although toned down considerably from the book by Thomas Dixon). Griffith made 34 feature films and over 400 shorts between 1908 and 1931. In the overwhelming majority of these he is a social progressive tackling such issues as poverty, political corruption, worker exploitation and interracial romance. He even made an anti-Klan film THE ROSE OF KENTUCKY back in 1912.

I mention all of this because in this current climate of political correctness Griffith is being judged and censured on the basis of one film as opposed to his whole body of work and the damage being done to his reputation is still going on. In the recent Oscar nominated film JUNEBUG, one of the characters is a Southern racist Civil War painter who happens to be named David Wark (the D.W. in Griffith's name).

INTOLERANCE, the follow-up to NATION, was the most ambitious and expensive film ever made up to that point (1916) and forever changed the way that movies would be made after it. Because of the lifesize sets of Ancient Babylon and the thousands of extras employed, the movie would cost over $500 million to remake today. Its central theme shows how intolerance through the ages breeds anger, anger then breeds repression and repression breeds more intolerance.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Epic Landmark January 22, 2001
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I must admit that I was intimidated by "Intolerance" before sitting down to watch it. I knew it was an early silent movie (1916) consisting of four different stories. I knew that the three hour running time would be spent intercutting between these four stories. Would I be able to keep up with all four stories? Would I be able to tell the different characters apart in the grainy black and white (with color-tinting)?

After watching it, I have a whole new appreciation for D.W. Griffith. Yes, I was able to tell the characters apart, and yes, I was able to keep up with all the storylines. This film was a giant leap forward in filmmaking from Griffith's previous film, "The Birth of a Nation." The most impressive story of the film is the fall of Babylon. The sets were magnificent, and the battle scenes were spectacular. Constance Talmadge was wonderful as the Mountain Girl. The modern story was entertaining and moving. The French and Judean stories were very underdeveloped, but that really didn't bother me.

Anyone with an interest in silent movies or film history must see this film.

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive with Tons of Extras! August 27, 2003
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This DVD set is very impressive. Not only does it offer the masterpieces of D.W. Griffith's career (including, of course, Birth of a Nation) but it also has all the shorts from the two videos "Selected Biograph Shorts," additional shorts, a biography and news items, and memorabilia. I am very happy to finally be able to see "In the Border States" and "The House with Closed Shutters." They both star my favorite actor, Henry B. Walthall, and I was searching for these shorts for awhile. I believe this set represents the first time these shorts have been made widely available. Considering their age, they look great on this set. In addition, this collection offers a 6 minute discussion of Birth of a Nation between the director himself and Walter Huston (who played Lincoln in Griffith's 1930 talkie Abraham Lincoln), clips of Griffith's funeral, radio eulogy by Erich von Stroheim, and many other "special features." The memorabilia includes lobby cards and programs for Birth of a Nation, articles from Photoplay magazine which are copied well and easy to read, and photos, postcards and magazine covers of Griffith's leading ladies. I only wish the leading men received the same treatment, but one can't have everything. A silly short starring Griffith ("Rescued From the Eagle's Nest" from 1908) and a very fake looking bird is included. The presentation is very well-done with video clips and period music on the menu pages. The packaging is also handsome and displayable. I was hoping little booklets would be included with each disc, however, there are only slips of paper with the film listings and pictures. Still, the bonus shorts and tons of extras make this a must for any Griffith or silent film collection.
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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars The Gotham/Alpha Video version is unwatchable January 3, 2005
Format:DVD
This cheapy version of Griffith's "Intolerance" (as opposed to the Kino version) is practically unwatchable -- out of focus, poorly scanned, and at times you can even detect tracking lines (i.e. this DVD was simply transferred from a videocassette version). Would not recommend at all. Check out the Kino version, as they tend to do good job at transfering old silent films to DVD.

The 1 star review is not reflective of Griffith's film. It is one of my favorite silent films and probably the most ambitious film ever made in terms of casting, sets and the enormity of the timespan of the four separate stories. This film is probably much more representative of Griffith's acievements than the racist and way outdated "Birth of a Nation." So this film deserves to be preserved properly, not in this bastardized cheapy version. Alas, I got what I paid for :-(
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Intolerance
What do you expect? It's only the most ambitious film ever made. (Hey, Amazon. Really? You needed eight more words?)
Published 23 days ago by PlanRad
2.0 out of 5 stars Dissappointed in film
I think the promotion for this film is way overstating the quality of it. When it was new it was probably quite wonderful, but, unfortunately no more. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Barbara Winarske
4.0 out of 5 stars very good movie
looking at the facial expressions and body language in this movie make it very worthwhile to see how much can be conveyed without the spoken word, the fear shown by Lillian Gish as... Read more
Published 2 months ago by john wuertz
5.0 out of 5 stars A Landmark in Silent Film.
I recently disposed of 3 inferior dvd's purchased earlier of D W Griffith films. No problems here. From the first viewing of this dvd, the difference was immediately visible and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jerome H. Rubin
3.0 out of 5 stars Old movie
This is an old movie - fairly interesting but probably not one to watch often. We ordered it to get ideas of costumes of the era.
Published 4 months ago by Linvan
5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous movie
This is one of the greatest movies, good story, great acting and great photography. We enjoyed it, watched it several times. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Charles Transue
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy of its AFI Spot
It's very clear how Intolerance - which wasn't on the original AFI Top 100 listing - somehow launched into the #49 spot on the 10th anniversary listing. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Lisa Shea
5.0 out of 5 stars The "MOTHER" of all movies???
I have seen "Intolerance", since the early 1970s, over eight times, and the more I watch it the more amazed I am with this silent classic. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jose R. Ortiz, Jr.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good example of pre-date creativity
Mixing epochs and people-major characters are being performed by the same actors, did they?-it is still, ninety years on since appearing, a powerful testimony to a human endless... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Michael Kerjman
5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Of Its Era
Quite possibly the greatest movie to be made during the silent movie era. "Intolerance" was made by Griffith after the backlash he experienced from the release of "Birth Of A... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Janet Chandler
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