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A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
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Leon Janney
- Cora's Child
- (as Laon Ramon)
Si Jenks
- Man at the Shindig
- (uncredited)
Cullen Johnson
- Little Boy
- (uncredited)
Seessel Anne Johnson
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
Gus Leonard
- Old Man at Dance Hall
- (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
- Townswoman at Shindig
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaDuring filming, high temperatures made life miserable for both cast and crew. The intense heat caused the film stock to warp, and it had to be packed in ice to remain intact. Lillian Gish claimed that she touched an outside door handle and was so severely burned that a small part of her palm's flesh was scalded off.
- Quotes
Letty Mason: -and for a moment I thought they were serious!
Cora: You're goin' to take one of 'em serious! You don't think I ain't seen through your tricks, Miss Sly Boots! You love Beverly-but you'll never get him away from me-he's mine! What's more-you're gettin' out o' our house-and gettin' out quick! I'd like to kill you!
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA srl, "THE WIND - IL VENTO (1928) + THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Il carretto fantasma, 1921)" (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
- SoundtracksA Cowboy's Lament/Streets of Laredo
Traditional
Played at the Shindig (1983 version)
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This is quite simply one of the handful of greatest achievements in the history of visual storytelling. There are images as fresh, as inventive as any you will ever see. You may find some of Gish's emoting a little over the top, but immediately there follow moments when she is as subtle and complex as anyone who came after her. She did, after all, invent screen acting as we now know it. One may wish for the original ending Gish and Sjostrom wanted; but the final images as re-shot were still created by artists at the height of their respective powers, and are memorable in their own right. The desert wind lives and howls in this film, as it has done only rarely in films by John Ford and David Lean. Anyone who doubts that cinema is art has never seen The Wind.
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- gayspiritwarrior
- Apr 3, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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