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Intolerance Revisited |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Lawrence O'Toole |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,044 Words, 6,220 Characters |
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After the extraordinary success of The Birth of a Nation in 1915, David Wark Griffith was beset by visions of grandeur that proved to be delusions of grandeur as well. Originally, the "father of the movies" was to follow his Civil War saga with a smallish film called The Mother and the Law, an emotionally gripping modern tolerance in his time. But the small film of The Mother and the Law expanded into the epic Intolerance, which, at a staggering cost of $2 million, was the most expensive film made until that time.
The story of The Mother and the Law is quite a simple one: The Dear one (Mae Marsh) and the Boy (Bobby Harron) are separated by a cruel frame-up; The Dear One's baby is taken from her by meddlesome temperance women while The Boy is in jail. When he gets...
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...east to Mae Marsh's face as she peers through the windows of the institution where they've taken her baby.
Perhaps the most affecting moment of all is when Marsh and Harron walk away into the sunlight after her father has been killed during a factory strike. The scene is, in a way, a glimpse of the eternal: People will always be walking away after massacres, finding comfort during trouble.
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