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Lillian Gish has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1910s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Night of the Hunter.
The House of the Spirits
1993
Romance · Drama

The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

The Wind
1928 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%MGM+ · Included

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%MGM+ · Included

Way Down East
1920 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

Orphans of the Storm
1921 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%MGM+ · Included

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Dir. Charles Laughton · With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Dir. Victor Sjöström · With Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Dir. William Dieterle · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore

as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
MGM+ · Included
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman

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.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Dir. King Vidor · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Walter Miller

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Dir. John Huston · With Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
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