剧情片 · 1919 · 美国
导演：埃里克·冯·施特罗海姆
主演：萨姆·德·格拉斯 Francelia Billington 埃里克·冯·施特罗海姆 Fay Holderness Richard Cumming
Two differences between this Austrian version and the generally available American version are immediately obvious they differ both in their length and in the language of the intertitles. The American version is only 1,883 metres long - at 18 frames per second a difference of some 7 minutes to the Austrian version with 2,045 metres. Whereas we originally presumed only a negligible difference, resulting from the varying length of the intertitles, a direct comparison has nevertheless shown that the Austrian version differs from the American version both in the montage and in the duration of individual scenes. Yet how could it happen that the later regional distribution of a canonical US silent film was longer than the original version The prevalent American version of Blind Husbands does not correspond to the version shown at the premiere of 1919. This little-known fact was already published by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film was re-released by Universal Pictures in 1924, in a version that was 1,365 feet (416 metres) shorter. At 18 frames per second, this amounts to a time difference of 20 minutes! Titles were altered, snippets of action removed and at least one major scene taken out entirely, where von Steuben and Margaret visit a small local chapel. (Koszarski) From the present state of research we can assume that all the known American copies of the film derive from this shortened re-release version, a copy of which Universal donated to the Museum of Modern Art in 1941. According to Koszarski the original negative of the film was destroyed sometime between 1956 and 1961 and has therefore been irretrievably lost. This information casts an interesting light on the Austrian version, which can be dated to the period between the summer of 1921 and the winter of 1922. Furthermore, the copy is some 200 metres longer than the US version of 1924. If one follows the details given by Richard Koszarski and Arthur Lennig, this means that, as far as both its date and its length are concerned, the Austrian version lies almost exactly in the middle between the (lost) version shown at the premiere and the re-released one.A large part of the additional length of the film can be traced to cuts that were made to the 1924 version in almost every shot. Koszarski describes how the beginning and the end of scenes were trimmed, in order to speed up the film. However, more exciting was the discovery that the Austrian version contains shots that are missing in the American one - shotscountershots, intertitles - and furthermore shows differences in its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual shots within a sequence). All this indicates that Die Rache der Berge constitutes the oldest and most completely preserved material of the film.
剧情片 · 1916 · 美国
导演：大卫·格里菲斯
主演：丽莲·吉许 梅·马什 罗伯特·哈伦 F.A.特纳 萨姆·德·格拉斯 米兰·库柏 玛丽·奥尔登 拉尔夫·李维斯 薇拉·刘易斯 朱莉娅·麦克利 沃尔特·朗 汤姆·威尔森
本片又译作《党同伐异》，是D．W．格里菲思最具创作野心的作品。由于受到《国家的诞生》惊人卖座的影响，格里菲思遂再接再励拍摄一部场面更大，内容更有深度的影片。他花了一年半的时间，动用了二百万美元的制作费，拍摄成片长220分的巨片（原版长480分）。可惜本片在1916年9月于纽约公映时，并没有受到预期的欢迎。本片所以卖座失败，原因很多，最主要是格里菲思在本片所采用的故事结构太复杂，导演手法已超越当时观众的接受能力。加上主题过于严肃，其中提倡的宽容和反对暴力的论调跟当时美国的高昂参战情绪引起冲突，因此未能受到普遍欢迎。不过，人们却不能否认这是一部电影艺术上的不朽杰作。《忍无可忍》由四段不同时代发生的故事组成：巴比伦的没落、耶稣基督的受难、法国的圣巴托罗米宗教大屠杀，以及二十世纪初美国的劳资冲突。格氏描述他自己的构想：“四个大循环故事好象四条河流，最初是分散...