with introduction and piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli
Lillian Gish gives one of her most memorable performances as a poor young woman who is duped into a phoney wedding, has a baby that dies at birth, and is then ostracized by her own people. Seduced and abandoned, she seeks regeneration and happiness as a servant in a Puritan New England farming town. It doesn't come any time soon, though, as the heroine suffers through still further travails before her final redemption. Griffith still thrills audiences with his breathtaking scene of Gish being carried down a river on an ice floe and the remarkable rescue by Richard Barthelmess.
1920, b&w, 2 hours 24 minutes, USA