(Flash Review)
The crux of this film begins with two orphan girls living in the same house and one goes blind from disease. The sister sparks a mission for them to head to Paris to find a doctor to cure her. During their adventure the French Revolution hits and they are separated. The blind girl is taken in by a smarmy old hag (film's words. Ha) while the sister has been courted by an aristocrat. During the Revolution, many aristocrats are rounded up and many put to death. Will the sister escape death and be reunited with her sister and will her sister ever see again? There is a lot of meat on the bone of this story that runs around 2.5hr and it really keeps you engaged. There is some neat edits and certain scenes have very modern editing that help ratchet up the tension. Another one of the influential epic films directed by D.W. Griffith.
The crux of this film begins with two orphan girls living in the same house and one goes blind from disease. The sister sparks a mission for them to head to Paris to find a doctor to cure her. During their adventure the French Revolution hits and they are separated. The blind girl is taken in by a smarmy old hag (film's words. Ha) while the sister has been courted by an aristocrat. During the Revolution, many aristocrats are rounded up and many put to death. Will the sister escape death and be reunited with her sister and will her sister ever see again? There is a lot of meat on the bone of this story that runs around 2.5hr and it really keeps you engaged. There is some neat edits and certain scenes have very modern editing that help ratchet up the tension. Another one of the influential epic films directed by D.W. Griffith.