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

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