| Release Date: | Dec 1921 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Runtime: | 152 min |
| Cast: | Lillian Gish (Henriette Girard) Dorothy Gish (Louise Girard) Joseph Schildkraut (Chevalier de Vaudrey) Frank Losee (Count de Linieres) Katherine Emmet (Countess de Linieres) Morgan Wallace (Marquis de Praille) Lucille La Verne (Mother Frochard) Sheldon Lewis (Jacques Frochard) Frank Puglia (Pierre Frochard) Creighton Hale (Picard) Leslie King (Jacques-Forget-Not) Monte Blue (Danton) Sidney Herbert (Robespierre) Lee Kohlmar (King Louis XVI) Marcia Harris (Henriette's landlady) Adolph Lestina (Doctor) Kate Bruce (Sister Genevieve) Flora Finch (Starving peasant) Louis Wolheim (Executioner) Kenny Delmar (The Chevalier, as a boy) James Smith (Dancer) Herbert Sutch (Meat carver at fete) Rose Smith (Dancer) Nellie Battipaglia ((uncredited)) Ruth Cleaver ((uncredited)) Tove Danor ((uncredited)) Dorothy McConnell ((uncredited)) Frank O'Connor (Party guest (uncredited)) Frances Robinson (Henriette as a Child (uncredited)) William J. Walsh ((uncredited)) |
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 lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love. The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy with the equally corrupt Robespierre. De Vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and Henriette for harboring him. Will revolutionary hero Danton, the only voice for mercy in the new regime, be able to save them from the guillotine?
