You have to give D.W. Griffith credit.There was so much expressed public dissatisfaction with his previous film,The Birth of a Nation,that he felt the need to right the wrong so he immediately went to work on this piece,a series of tales representing love's ever constant battle with intolerance and hatred.Four very well illustrated stories are compounded for the effort.Of the stories,I believe that the Christ story is the most significant,but that the most compelling as far as the entertainment value of the film is the story of The Dear One and The Boy,which contains one of the best "edge of your seat" climaxes that I have ever seen in a film.In fact,it probably would have made a great film on it's own without the other stories being intertwined with it.It's lengthy and jumps back and forth between stories.If you can tolerate these facts,you will enjoy.
Review of Intolerance
