Cast: Lillian Gish

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lillian Gish · Lars Hanson · Montagu Love · Dorothy Cumming

Synopsis Letty, a naive, poor young woman, travels to the wind-blown Texas prairie and lives in a dust-bowl town on her cousin's ranch. She takes care of the children, but is disliked by her cousin's wife Cora (Dorothy Cumming) who is...

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Synopsis A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead fathers stolen fortune.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Mae Marsh · Robert Harron · Constance Talmadge

Synopsis 'Intolerance' tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Christ Story', 'The Huguenot Story', and 'The Modern Story'.

Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast James Mason · Viola Dana · Byron Haskin · Colleen Moore

Synopsis The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle Lillian Gish. But her romantic presence splits the empire. Bookish...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Richard Barthelmess · Donald Crisp · Arthur Howard

Synopsis Tragic and poetic D.W. Griffith drama about a young girl who leaves her abusive boxer father and finds friendship with a Chinese shopkeeper in London's Limehouse district.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Richard Barthelmess · Lowell Sherman · Burr McIntosh

Synopsis Lillian Gish stars as a small-town girl who is seduced, impregnated, and cast aside by Lennox Sanderson, a wealthy playboy (Lowell Sherman). To escape the shame of having a fatherless child, Anna changes her name and starts a new life...

Direction Henry King

Cast Lillian Gish · Ronald Colman · Gail Kane · J. Barney Sherry

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Mae Marsh · Henry B. Walthall · Miriam Cooper

Synopsis The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen...

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lillian Gish · Lars Hanson · Henry B. Walthall · Karl Dane

Synopsis In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hester is already married to Roger Prynne,...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Robert Harron · Wilbur Higby · Loyola O'Connor

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Dorothy Gish · Joseph Schildkraut · Frank Losee

Synopsis Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Lillian Gish · John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Roy D'Arcy

Synopsis It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Rodolphe...

Direction John Huston

Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon

Synopsis The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast William Bakewell · Evelyn Baldwin · Eileen Bowser · Karl Brown

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Carol Burnett · Paul Dooley · Amy Stryker · Mia Farrow

Synopsis Altman returns to the narrative strategy of Nashville, using a massive cast and a complex web of subplots to probe the flaws and fissures in modern America as made evident at a big society wedding marrying old money with new,...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Elmer Booth · Lillian Gish · Clara T. Bracy · Walter Miller

Synopsis A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement. The husband's job requires him to go away for for a number of days. On his return, he is robbed by the neighborhood gangster....

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Bette Davis · Lillian Gish · Vincent Price · Ann Sothern

Synopsis Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. Libby is blind,...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Richard Widmark · Lauren Bacall · Charles Boyer · Gloria Grahame

Synopsis At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for his patients to design and make new drapes for the...