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Sunday, Jul 23, 2000
Annie Laurie
Jon Mirsalis on Piano. One of the incomparable Lillian Gish's lesser-known late silent starring vehicles, this good-looking and unjustly neglected romantic melodrama of the Scottish Highlands (sets by MGM) has beautiful climactic two-color Technicolor scenes which have been restored by the Motion Picture Department of the Library of Congress...work greatly admired upon the film's relaunch at last year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Gish is as transcendent as ever as a governor's intrepid daughter caught up in clan warfare who has to choose between a Campbell and a MacDonald. She had cast and director approval and chose the then highly regarded John S. Robertson. The sweeping camerawork does more than justice to the story's surging passions and rousing action scenes. A collector's piece.-Clyde Jeavons, London FilmFestival '99Preserved from original nitrate print.
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