Drama History Romance
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.
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Kenny Delmar
The Chevalier - as a Boy
Frank Puglia
Pierre
Joseph Schildkraut
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Lillian Gish
Henriette Girard
Dorothy Gish
Louise Girard
Monte Blue
Danton
Frank Losee
Count de Linieres
Morgan Wallace
Marquis de Praille
Flora Finch
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lucille La Verne
Mother Frochard
Louis Wolheim
Executioner (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina
The Doctor (uncredited)
Sheldon Lewis
Jacques Frochard
Kate Bruce
Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
Picard
Lee Kohlmar
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Marcia Harris
Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Leslie King
Jacques-Forget-Not
Sidney Herbert
Robespierre
Katherine Emmet
Countess de Linieres
Herbert Sutch

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