--- product_id: 5372115 title: "Intolerance (Silent)" price: "€ 53.79" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5372115-intolerance-silent store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Intolerance (Silent) **Price:** € 53.79 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Intolerance (Silent) - **How much does it cost?** € 53.79 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5372115-intolerance-silent) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of Intolerance and its terrible effects throughout history from Ancient Babylon and Biblical Judea to Medieval Paris and Modern America. Review: GRIFFITH'S TALE OF LOVE'S STRUGGLE THROUGH THE AGES DAZZLES IN HD - When D.W. Griffith's massive epic INTOLERANCE was released in 1916, it was a commercial failure. This was due in part to its pacifist stand on war at a time when America was at the brink of entering the European conflict, and also because of its complex narrative structure which many people found difficult to follow. Griffith himself spent the rest of his life paying off the debts INTOLERANCE had incurred. None of these perceived failings matter when viewing the film, which retains all of its power to amaze and move an audience as it did the day it premiered. Originally planned as a much shorter film that Griffith called THE MOTHER AND THE LAW which dealt with a contemporary setting, the story was expanded to include three other episodes taken from history: the fall of Babylon, the crucifixion of Christ, and the Huguenot massacre. Griffith's innovative plan was to intercut the stories and jump back and forth between them, showing how the same themes of human injustice and intolerance have persisted from earliest times to our modern day. Not only was the narrative structure unconventional and ambitious, but the entire production was mounted on a scale unprecedented in American cinema at that time. Costumes were authentic in every detail, while the sets - particularly the Babylonian wall, gate, and courtyard - were the largest ever built for a movie. INTOLERANCE features excellent performances by the entire cast which includes Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette and Howard Gaye. Lillian Gish plays the key role of the mother who endlessly rocks the cradle of time, linking all four stories. The film is alternately beautiful, compelling, and disturbing in its vivid imagery and never ceases to fascinate in the way it combines intimate drama with opulent spectacle. As broad as it is in its scope, INTOLERANCE pulsates with passionate emotion. In many ways it is unsurpassed in its attempt to cinematically depict humanity's struggle throughout history. No other film tried to tackle again what Griffith gives us in INTOLERANCE, and that alone is something to admire. Cohen Media Group's newly restored Blu-ray of this silent masterpiece is a revelation. Scanned at 2K/1080p, the images leap off the screen with remarkable clarity for a movie that's nearly a century old. Over those decades INTOLERANCE has had a frustrating existence with numerous cuts, snippets, alternate takes, and varying projection speeds so that it's virtually impossible to pin down a "definitive" version. This edition has by far the best overall combination of extant footage and image quality consistency, and includes the original tints as per its initial roadshow engagement. The magnificent Carl Davis music score in 5.1 and 2.0 audio adds a new, epic dimension that makes us appreciate even more the power of this film. Extras include the shorter features THE MOTHER AND THE LAW and THE FALL OF BABYLON both with new scores by the Mont Alto Orchestra, a retrospective by historian Kevin Brownlow, the restoration trailer, and a booklet with essays by Richard Porton and William M. Drew. This extraordinary, influential classic is mandatory viewing for every cinema lover, and I give this outstanding Blu-ray my highest recommendation. Review: A MASTERPIECE REBORN! - I discovered this film many years ago as a teenager when I purchased a 8mm copy of the entire film from Blackhawk Films. I could hardly change the 200 foot reels of film fast enough. The film is in a masterwork of early cinema that still thrills and amazes the viewer with Griffith's editing and direction telling four different stories dealing with intolerance through the ages. Cutting back and forth from one story to the other and building to its amazing climax wherein all four stories come to their conclusion. Later years I purchased INTOLERANCE on a Laser Disc and then on DVD. Now the Cohen Blu-ray transfer brings this almost 100 year old masterpiece to new life with a restoration that is nothing short of amazing! And the Carl Davis orchestra score is perfect. Not only that but we now have an opportunity to see THE MOTHER AND THE LAW, which Griffith released after INTOLERANCE failed to return its vast production cost. This is the modern story of INTOLERANCE and it features more material then that included in the four story film. I had known about this film for many years but this is the first time that it has been made available to actually see and appreciate. There is also a hour version of THE FALL OF BABYON section of the film that doesn't work quite as well as it was intended to be shown in conjunction with live stage performances intermixed with the showing of the film. But the Mountain Girl (played by Constance Talmadge) who dies in INTOLERANCE is given a happy ending for this version. This is a major Blu-ray release (their DVD release would be excellent also) and one that I would give the highest rating to. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | D.W. Griffith, Fred Turner, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 118 Reviews | | Format | NTSC | | Genre | Blu-ray Movie, DVD Movie, Drama | | Language | English | | Runtime | 3 hours and 17 minutes | ## Images ![Intolerance (Silent) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mcxZgvxKL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GRIFFITH'S TALE OF LOVE'S STRUGGLE THROUGH THE AGES DAZZLES IN HD *by A***H on November 6, 2013* When D.W. Griffith's massive epic INTOLERANCE was released in 1916, it was a commercial failure. This was due in part to its pacifist stand on war at a time when America was at the brink of entering the European conflict, and also because of its complex narrative structure which many people found difficult to follow. Griffith himself spent the rest of his life paying off the debts INTOLERANCE had incurred. None of these perceived failings matter when viewing the film, which retains all of its power to amaze and move an audience as it did the day it premiered. Originally planned as a much shorter film that Griffith called THE MOTHER AND THE LAW which dealt with a contemporary setting, the story was expanded to include three other episodes taken from history: the fall of Babylon, the crucifixion of Christ, and the Huguenot massacre. Griffith's innovative plan was to intercut the stories and jump back and forth between them, showing how the same themes of human injustice and intolerance have persisted from earliest times to our modern day. Not only was the narrative structure unconventional and ambitious, but the entire production was mounted on a scale unprecedented in American cinema at that time. Costumes were authentic in every detail, while the sets - particularly the Babylonian wall, gate, and courtyard - were the largest ever built for a movie. INTOLERANCE features excellent performances by the entire cast which includes Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette and Howard Gaye. Lillian Gish plays the key role of the mother who endlessly rocks the cradle of time, linking all four stories. The film is alternately beautiful, compelling, and disturbing in its vivid imagery and never ceases to fascinate in the way it combines intimate drama with opulent spectacle. As broad as it is in its scope, INTOLERANCE pulsates with passionate emotion. In many ways it is unsurpassed in its attempt to cinematically depict humanity's struggle throughout history. No other film tried to tackle again what Griffith gives us in INTOLERANCE, and that alone is something to admire. Cohen Media Group's newly restored Blu-ray of this silent masterpiece is a revelation. Scanned at 2K/1080p, the images leap off the screen with remarkable clarity for a movie that's nearly a century old. Over those decades INTOLERANCE has had a frustrating existence with numerous cuts, snippets, alternate takes, and varying projection speeds so that it's virtually impossible to pin down a "definitive" version. This edition has by far the best overall combination of extant footage and image quality consistency, and includes the original tints as per its initial roadshow engagement. The magnificent Carl Davis music score in 5.1 and 2.0 audio adds a new, epic dimension that makes us appreciate even more the power of this film. Extras include the shorter features THE MOTHER AND THE LAW and THE FALL OF BABYLON both with new scores by the Mont Alto Orchestra, a retrospective by historian Kevin Brownlow, the restoration trailer, and a booklet with essays by Richard Porton and William M. Drew. This extraordinary, influential classic is mandatory viewing for every cinema lover, and I give this outstanding Blu-ray my highest recommendation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MASTERPIECE REBORN! *by E***E on December 2, 2013* I discovered this film many years ago as a teenager when I purchased a 8mm copy of the entire film from Blackhawk Films. I could hardly change the 200 foot reels of film fast enough. The film is in a masterwork of early cinema that still thrills and amazes the viewer with Griffith's editing and direction telling four different stories dealing with intolerance through the ages. Cutting back and forth from one story to the other and building to its amazing climax wherein all four stories come to their conclusion. Later years I purchased INTOLERANCE on a Laser Disc and then on DVD. Now the Cohen Blu-ray transfer brings this almost 100 year old masterpiece to new life with a restoration that is nothing short of amazing! And the Carl Davis orchestra score is perfect. Not only that but we now have an opportunity to see THE MOTHER AND THE LAW, which Griffith released after INTOLERANCE failed to return its vast production cost. This is the modern story of INTOLERANCE and it features more material then that included in the four story film. I had known about this film for many years but this is the first time that it has been made available to actually see and appreciate. There is also a hour version of THE FALL OF BABYON section of the film that doesn't work quite as well as it was intended to be shown in conjunction with live stage performances intermixed with the showing of the film. But the Mountain Girl (played by Constance Talmadge) who dies in INTOLERANCE is given a happy ending for this version. This is a major Blu-ray release (their DVD release would be excellent also) and one that I would give the highest rating to. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Controversial Milestone in Cinema in a Crystal Clear Version *by D***M on February 8, 2017* In 2017, D.W. Griffith is back in national news concerning his controversial 1915 epic Birth of a Nation, now considered both a landmark in world cinema and—as some historians have described it in a PBS documentary in early 2017—"racist pornography." There's a new film with the same title, deliberately chiding the original film by Griffith. Overall, Griffith's public reputation a century after Birth of a Nation is pretty dismal and as a life-long journalist who has written about film for many years, I agree with that analysis. Birth of a Nation had a terrible impact. That's relevant, because this epic—Intolerance—arrived in 1916 and these two films, taken together, represent the infamous zenith of Griffith's career. When I first saw Intolerance half a century ago at the University of Michigan in film studies, we were told that this represented Griffith's apology for Birth of a Nation. In fact, today, we learn that Griffith never repudiated his horrific vision of race relations in the earlier film. Rather than an apology, this multi-million-dollar epic was Griffith's heart-felt claim that he had been wronged himself by "do-gooders." He felt that he had been wounded by intolerance. And, the dark side of this movie is that Griffith has put on the big screen some truly hateful assumptions about what, in that day, would have been known as Progressives. In particular, Griffith targets women's groups as evil cabals of battle axes intent on tearing families apart. Having said all of that, Intolerance still ranks high on global lists of milestones in world cinema. It's still on the master list of greatest films ever made published by Sight & Sound, for example. That's a list voted by film professionals and film critics. Or, consider the more tabloid-style overview of this film in Kenneth Anger's equally infamous classic: Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets . I tend to agree with Anger's assessment. The outrageous excesses of Intolerance (which contributed to the decline in Griffith's fortunes in subsequent years) was a major milestone in what Anger calls Hollywood's "Purple" age—an era of over-the-top excess. I think that's why Sight & Sound and other groups of film historians still list this silent classic as a "great" moment in world cinema. And, ultimately, that's why you should invest in this superb-quality Cohen Blu-ray of the film if you plan to tackle its nearly three hours today. There are countless other versions of Intolerance available online from streaming video to cheap DVD knock offs. Most of them are poor quality. I will point out here that I also own the Griffith Masterworks series DVD of this film: Intolerance (1916) . If you are looking for a DVD version of the movie, it's a fine choice as well. But, having seen both now, I urge you to get this Cohen edition. In this review, I wanted to acknowledge the controversy swirling around these two classics. The heart of that controversy is the 1915 film and, if you want to know more about that, get a copy of Dick Lehr's excellent history: The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War . That was the basis of the January 2017 PBS documentary about that chapter in Griffith's career. If you want to dive into this 1916 epic, you won't find as much written about it unless you look back to Anger's book or perhaps others that mention Griffith's building of Babylon in Hollywood. It's an eye-popping peak in silent cinema. If you've never seen it and care about the history of film, this is definitely a "must see" milestone. 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