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The Wind

1928

Victor Sjöström

Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming ...

8.1

2,517

Drama. Romance. Western Letty, a naive, poor young woman, travels to the wind-blown Texas prairie and lives in a dust-bowl town on her cousin's ranch. She takes care of the children, but is disliked by her cousin's wife Cora (Dorothy Cumming) who is jealous of her closeness with her husband and three children. With nowhere to go, she is forced to marry Lige (Lars Hanson), an uncouth, rough cowboy she doesn't love. During a terrific windstorm one night and with ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"A silent classic (...) which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career (...) A work of art"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The entire film - erotic, beautiful, astonishing - demonstrates such imagination and assurance that it remains, sixty years after it was made, completely modern."
		Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"There's great hardscrabble beauty, and some marvelous flourishes from Sjöström"

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