The Wind 1928

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The Wind ★★★★ 1928

One of the last great silents still stands as a magnificent entertainment. Gish, in possibly her best role, is an innocent Easterner who finds herself married to a rough cowpoke and raped by a married man in a bleak frontier town. Director Sjostrom has a splendid feel for landscape, and the drama—climaxing with a tumultuous desert storm—is intense yet fully believable. Based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough. 74m/B VHS . Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy (Dorothy G. Cummings) Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond; D: Victor Sjostrom; W: Frances Marion. Natl. Film Reg. ‘93.

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