An overstuffed but ultimately stirring saga of two sisters separated and reunited during the French Revolution, ORPHANS OF THE STORM was the last picture D.W. Griffith made with either Lillian or Dorothy Gish. In 1975, prominent feminist critic Molly Haskell included it on her list of the
all-time ten best films about women.
A commoner is slain by relatives of his aristocratic wife. Before the murderers seize her baby daughter, the widow secrets this note in the infant's locket: "Her name is Louise. Save her." An impoverished man finds the abandoned child in front of Notre Dame Cathedral and takes her home to raise
side by side with his own baby daughter, Henri...
Released:
1922
Rated:
NR
Length:
125 mins