Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution.
Original theatrical poster
Dorothy and Lillian Gish in publicity photograph for film, 1921
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art o
Orphans of the Storm
…Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution. The last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish, it was…
Left to right: Griffith, cameraman Billy Bitzer (behind Pathé camera), Dorothy Gish (watching from behind Bitzer), Karl Brown (keeping script) and Miriam Cooper (in profile) in a production still for Intolerance (1916)
The first million-dollar partners: Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin and Griffith