Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Year:
Duration:
163 min | UK:178 min (2000 video release) | USA:197 min | Spain:197 min (DVD version) | Spain:123 min (TV version) | Argentina:175 min | Portugal:210 min
Genres:
Drama | History
IMDB rate:
8
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1916-09-05
Filming Locations: Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Lillian Gish
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Spottiswoode Aitken
Brown Eyes's Father (as Spottiswoode Aitkin)
Mary Alden
Uplifter
Frank Bennett
Charles IX
Monte Blue
The Strike Leader
William H. Brown
Father of the Bride of Cana / Warden (as William Brown)
Lucille Browne
Uplifter
Elmer Clifton
The Rhapsode
Miriam Cooper
The Friendless One
Josephine Crowell
Catherine de Médicis
Dore Davidson
The Friendly Neighbor
Sam De Grasse
Arthur Jenkins
Edward Dillon
Crook
Taylor N. Duncan
Captain of the Gateg / Bodyguard of the Princess Beloved (as Ted Duncan)
Pearl Elmore
Uplifter
Howard Gaye
Jesus Christ
Olga Grey
Adultress
Ruth Handforth
Brown Eyes's Mother
Robert Harron
The Boy
Joseph Henabery
L'amiral de Coligny
Chandler House
Page
Lloyd Ingraham
Judge of the Court
Lillian Langdon
Virgin Mary
W.E. Lawrence
Henri de Navarre
Morris Levy
Le duc de Guise
Ralph Lewis
The Governor
Vera Lewis
Mary Jenkins
Walter Long
The Musketeer of the Slums
Bessie Love
The Bride of Cana
Julia Mackley
Uplifter (as Mrs. Arthur Mackley)
Mae Marsh
The Dear One
Marguerite Marsh
Debutante
Tully Marshall
High Priest of Bel / Friend of the Musketeer
John P. McCarthy
Prison Guard (as J.P. McCarthy)
A.W. McClure
Father Fathley
Seena Owen
The Princess Beloved
Alfred Paget
Prince Belshazzar
Eugene Pallette
Prosper Latour
Billy Quirk
Bartender
Allan Sears
The Mercenary (as A.D. Sears)
Maxfield Stanley
Henri III
Carl Stockdale
King Nabonidus
Constance Talmadge
Marguerite de Navarre
F.A. Turner
The Dear One's Father (as Fred Turner)
W.S. Van Dyke
Cana Wedding Guest
Erich von Ritzau
First Pharisee (as Gunther von Ritzau)
George Walsh
The Bridegroom of Cana
Eleanor Washington
Uplifter
Margery Wilson
Brown Eyes
Tom Wilson
The Kindly Policeman
Sylvia Ashton
Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited)
George Beranger
Second Priest of Bel (uncredited)
Barney Bernard
Attorney for The Boy (uncredited)
Frank Borzage
Extra (uncredited)
Kitty Bradbury
Jenkins Party Guest (uncredited)
John Bragdon
Counselor of Charles IX (uncredited)
Karl Brown
Extra (uncredited)
Tod Browning
Crook (uncredited)
Frank Brownlee
The Mountain Girl's Brother (uncredited)
Kate Bruce
Old Babylonian Mother / The City Mother (uncredited)
Edward Burns
Charioteer of the Priest of Bel (uncredited)
James Burns
Charioteer of the Second Priest of Bel (uncredited)
David Butler
Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
Ernest Butterworth
Extra (uncredited)
Frank Campeau
Extra (uncredited)
Jewel Carmen
Favorite of the Harem
Francis Carpenter
Child in Epilogue (uncredited)
Peggy Cartwright
Little Girl (uncredited)
William E. Cassidy
Extra (uncredited)
Hazel Childers
Jenkins Party Guest (uncredited)
Lotta Clifton
Dancer of Tammuz (uncredited)
Dark Cloud
Ethiopian Chieftan
Constance Collier
Extra (uncredited)
Virginia Lee Corbin
Child in Epilogue (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
The Runner (uncredited)
Jack Cosgrave
Chief Eunuch (uncredited)
William Courtright
Second Pharisee
Donald Crisp
Extra (uncredited)
James Curley
The Charioteer of Cyrus (uncredited)
Ruth Darling
Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Max Davidson
Kindly Neighbor (uncredited)
Nigel De Brulier
Extra (uncredited)
Carol Dempster
Favorite of the Harem
The Denishawn Dancers
Dancers (uncredited)
Charles Eagle Eye
Barbarian Chieftain (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks
Man on White Horse (uncredited)
George Fawcett
Babylonian Judge (uncredited)
Clarence Geldart
Extra (uncredited)
Mildred Harris
Favorite of the Harem
Dell Henderson
Extra (uncredited)
Russell Hicks
Extra (uncredited)
Clyde E. Hopkins
Jenkins's Secretary (uncredited)
DeWolf Hopper Sr.
Extra (uncredited)
Luray Huntley
Uplifter (uncredited)
George James
Councellor of Charles IX (uncredited)
Daisy Jefferson
Favorite of the Harem
Noble Johnson
Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
Martin Landry
Auctioneer at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Robert Lawler
Babylonian Judge (uncredited)
Alberta Lee
Wife of The Kindly Neighbor (uncredited)
Jennie Lee
Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln
The Mighty Man of Valor (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Extra (uncredited)
Francis McDonald
Extra (uncredited)
Arthur Meyer
Brother of a Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Felix Modjeska
Bodyguard to the Princess (Babylonian Story) (uncredited)
Margaret Mooney
Girl at the Marriage Market (Babylonian Story) (uncredited)
Owen Moore
Extra (uncredited)
Carmel Myers
Favorite of the Harem
Loyola O'Connor
Attarea's Slave (uncredited)
Vester Pegg
Extra (uncredited)
Mazie Radford
Dancer of Tammuz (uncredited)
Wallace Reid
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Louis Ritz
Counselor to Charles IX (uncredited)
Louis Romaine
Catholic Priest (uncredited)
Howard Scott
Babylonian Dandy (uncredited)
Ted Shawn
Dancer of Tammuz (uncredited)
George Siegmann
Cyrus
Ah Singh
First Priest of Nergel (uncredited)
Ranji Singh
Second Priest of Nergel (uncredited)
Eve Southern
Favorite of the Harem
Ruth St. Denis
Dancer of Tammuz (uncredited)
Pauline Starke
Favorite of the Harem
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Herbert Sutch
Extra (uncredited)
Natalie Talmadge
Favorite of the Harem
Ethel Grey Terry
Favorite of the Harem
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Extra (uncredited)
Charles Van Courtlandt
Gobyras (uncredited)
King Vidor
Extra (uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim
Second Pharisee
Anna Mae Walthall
Favorite of the Harem
Raymond Wells
Counselor to Charles IX (uncredited)
Winifred Westover
The Favorite of Egibi (uncredited)
Grace Wilson
Dancer of Tammuz (uncredited)
Hal Wilson
Extra (uncredited)
Tammany Young
Extra (uncredited)
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Trivia
Including among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
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The role of the second Pharisee is credited to Erich von Stroheim. However, von Stroheim did not play this role. D.W. Griffith decided to use von Stroheim's name as a pseudonym for actor William Courtright, who actually plays the role. This has caused much confusion over the years. Von Stroheim's only work on this film was as a production assistant for the Babylon sequences.
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D.W. Griffith invested more than $2 million on the film, an unprecedented amount of money at the time. "Intolerance" never even came close to earning back its budget - audiences in 1916 were completely unused to seeing films which ran in excess of 3 hours. Even when it was re-cut and released as 2 separate features, "The Fall of Babylon" and "The Mother and the Law", it still failed to make money.
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Goofs
During the Babylonian bacchanal, the same extra, dressed as a slave girl, is standing behind both Belshazzar and Beloved. She is looking in different directions and has her arms in different positions in each shot.
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In the opening of the Babelonian story, shortly before the intertitle reading "Dearest one - in the ash heaps of my back yard...etc." (spoken by the Rapsode), a group of extras behind the Mountain Girl are shown get up and walk off to the left. In the next shot, when the Rapsode puts his face up to the Mountain Girl's ear to speak his line, these extras are shown to still be seated in their former places.
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The Babylon temple set features large elephant statues. Elephants were not indigenous to ancient Babylon therefore the Babylonians would not know what an elephant is having never seen one.
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Quotes
The Dear One: I'll walk like her and maybe everyone will like me too.
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Intertitle: When women cease to attract men, they often turn to reform as a second option. 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Intertitle: Out of the cradle, endlessly rocking... 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Catherine de Medici: Such a fine man, Admiral Coligny. If only he thought as we do.
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Prince Belshazzar: [to his princess beloved] The fragrant mystery of your body is greater than the mystery of life.
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Photos from cast
Alma Rubens
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