Orphans of the Storm (1921)

A dramatic epic

150 min★ 7.3 · 5,812 votes

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

Release date: December 28, 1921
Country of origin: United States
Music: Brian Benison, Louis F. Gottschalk, John Lanchbery

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Cast

Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard
Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard
Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey
Creighton Hale as Picard
Monte Blue as Danton
Sidney Herbert as Robespierre
Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard
Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
Frank Losee as Count de Linieres
Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres
Flora Finch as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Louis Wolheim as Executioner (uncredited)
Marcia Harris as Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Lee Kohlmar as King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Kate Bruce as Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina as The Doctor (uncredited)
Kenny Delmar as The Chevalier - as a Boy
Herbert Sutch as Meat Carver at Festival
Fay Marbe as Dancer (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor as Party Guest (uncredited)
Frances Robinson as Henriette as a Child (uncredited)

Crew

D.W. Griffith · Director
Adolphe d'Ennery · Writer
Eugène Cormon · Writer
D.W. Griffith · Writer
D.W. Griffith · Producer
Brian Benison · Composer
Louis F. Gottschalk · Composer
John Lanchbery · Composer
William Frederick Peters · Composer
Paul H. Allen · Cinematographer
G.W. Bitzer · Cinematographer
Hendrik Sartov · Cinematographer
James Smith · Editor
Rose Smith · Editor