Monumental in both scale and running time, it's still one of the most spectacular undertakings in film ever seen.
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05/24/03
Intolerance (1916)
95 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 20 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 28 mins
Synopsis: Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Elmo Lincoln, Eugene Pallette
Director: D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter: Tod Browning
Composer: Carl Davis, Joseph Carl Breil, D.W. Griffith
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter: D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter: Tod Browning
Composer: Carl Davis, Joseph Carl Breil, D.W. Griffith
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter: D.W. Griffith
Reviews
Top Critic
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.
02/06/08
Top Critic
Intolerance's sets, costumes, compositions, and mass deployment of bodies in motion are often impressive, especially in the battle of Babylon sequence.
06/27/07
Top Critic
The verdict Intolerance renders in the controversy concerning its maker is that he is a real wizard of lens and screen.
04/08/06
Top Critic
The film presents its stories on the grandest of scales, sparing no expense in re-creating the period, and especially the monstrous Babylonian sets.
11/08/04
The greatest spectacle of the silent era, and an audacious storytelling experiment decades ahead of its time… stunning but flawed, alternately dazzling and trying.
08/22/04
Over-extended and powered by a glib conceit, but still a stunning piece of filmmaking, with a breathtaking set.
06/20/04
Surprisingly, as a visual spectacle this very old film stands up well.
11/06/03
One can't help but feel that two of the stories would stand better on their own.
05/10/02
One of the great breakthroughs -- the Ulysses of the cinema -- and a powerful, moving experience in its own right.
01/01/00
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