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Lillian Gish

14 October 1893, Springfield, Ohio, USA

Richard Barthelmess

9 May 1895, New York City, New York, USA

Mrs. David Landau

Lowell Sherman

11 October 1888, San Francisco, California, USA

Burr McIntosh

21 August 1862, Wellsville, Ohio, USA

19 May 1889, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Kate Bruce

17 February 1860, Columbus, Indiana, USA

Vivia Ogden

21 March 1869, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Porter Strong

27 December 1878, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

George Neville

17 October 1865, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Edgar Nelson

25 January 1882, Tower City, Pennsylvania, USA

Mary Hay

22 August 1901, Fort Bliss, Texas, USA

Creighton Hale

24 May 1889, County Cork, Ireland

Emily Fitzroy

24 May 1860, London, England, UK

Paul Porcasi

1 January 1879, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Norma Shearer

10 August 1902, Montréal, Québec, Canada

D.W. Griffith

22 January 1875, LaGrange, Kentucky, USA

William A. Brady

19 June 1863, San Francisco, California, USA

Lottie Blair Parker

1854, Oswego, New York, USA

Anna Moore

Played by: Lillian Gish

David Bartlett

Played by: Richard Barthelmess

Anna Moore's Mother

Played by: Mrs. David Landau

Lennox Sanderson

Played by: Lowell Sherman

Squire Bartlett

Played by: Burr McIntosh

Martha Perkins

Played by: Vivia Ogden

Seth Holcomb

Played by: Porter Strong

Hi Holler

Played by: Edgar Nelson

Washington Post

What's amazing is that so much of Gish's tough, funny, intuitive performance, particularly in the film's middle section as she bears her illegitimate child, transcends time, place and technology.

January 01, 2000

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Classic Film and Television

Classic feminist film

August 13, 2005

CinePassion

One of Griffith's most rousing visions of film as visual-emotional ebb and flow, connection and rupture

August 06, 2012

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Time Out

[Lillian Gish's] virtuoso performance makes the heroine's growth from gullible innocence to bitter experience credible.

January 26, 2006

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Old-fashioned bucolic soap opera doesn't translate well to modern-times.

May 27, 2007

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Film4

Spectacular to look at, emotionally engaging and with a conclusion that still sends a shiver down the spine.

August 19, 2013

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Filmcritic.com

If you are not moved at the scene of Gish baptizing her dead baby, then you should check the obituaries of your local paper to see if you are listed.

July 25, 2007

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Chicago Reader

Through his star, Lillian Gish, Griffith gives the story an emotional power that lifts this 1920 silent feature to the level of a folktale; it becomes something simple, strong, and timeless.

January 01, 2000

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Radio Times

Justly celebrated for the climactic sequence where Gish, drifting unconscious on a raft of ice in a storm, is rescued by Barthelmess, the film offers many less obvious moments that are just as memorable.

August 12, 2014

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TV Guide

The movie is today noted chiefly for its legendary climactic episode: a harrowingly realistic sequence in which the hero hurdles a succession of floating ice blocks to save the heroine from being washed over the falls.

May 24, 2003

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Combustible Celluloid

This is melodramatic soap opera at its most blatant and at its very best.

January 07, 2012

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Variety

With the gathering together of a relatively small cast and less than half a dozen stellar film artists, D.W. has taken a simple, elemental, old-fashioned, bucolic melodrama and milked it for 12 reels of absorbing entertainment.

March 26, 2009

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