Fresh
Dorothy Gish is the blind girl, and this step from comedienne roles into a role of unlimited emotional possibilities reveals new capabilities in the less famous of the two Gish girls.
Variety Staff, Variety
Orphans of the Storm
A dramatic epic
1921 · 2h 30m · NOT RATED
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Overview
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Director and cast
- D.W. Griffith Director
- Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard
- Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard
- Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey
- Frank Losee as Count de Linieres
- Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres
- Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
- Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
- Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
- Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard
- Creighton Hale as Picard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
While the director's handling of humour (clumsy) and pathos (heavily milked) demands some generosity from the audience, the eternal radiance of Lillian Gish shines through everything.
David Thompson, Time Out
Fresh
One of the best of the director's late silent epics.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Orphans of the Storm is a stirring, gripping picture.
New York Times
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