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Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman.

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Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard リリアン・ギッシュ
Dorothy Gish as Louise　ドロシー・ギッシュ
Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey　ジョセフ・シルドクラウト
Frank Losee as Count de Linières
Catherine Emmet as Countess de Linières
Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard
Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
Creighton Hale as Picard
Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not


1921年のD・W・グリフィス監督作品「嵐の孤児」です。
1874年の「Les Deux orphelines」という戯曲が原作でギッシュ姉妹が共演しました。
映画の舞台はフランス革命の頃　1790年代ですね。

150分の大作ですけど、興行的には失敗に終わりました。
グリフィス監督が監督したリリアン・ギッシュの最後の映画になりました。