Year: 1919
Runtime: 63 mins
Director: D.W. Griffith
Featuring 50,000 extras, four thousand dancing girls, 10,500 horses and beasts, Griffith revisited his epic after ‘Intolerance’ underperformed. Three years later he split the film into two chapters, adding new footage. The first, ‘The Fall of Babylon’, dramatizes the clash between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Persia’s conqueror Cyrus the Great.
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