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"Letty (Lillian Gish), a girl from Virginia, is forced to make her home with her cousin Beverly on a desert farm where the wind blows constantly. On her arrival she meets Roddy (Montagu Love), an attractive stranger and two cowboys, Lige (Lars Hanson) and Sourdough. Letty later marries Lige. While Lige is away on a roundup, Roddy arrives and takes advantage of Letty's helplessness and she shoots him. She buries his body in the sand, but the strong wind tugs at the grave and uncovers it, driving her mad. Lige returns and Letty tells him what has happened. They look for the body, but the strong wind has covered it once again. They decide to face the wind together."
"The last silent film starring one of the greatest 'silent' actresses, Lillian Gish, was a collaboration with the Swedish director Victor Sjostrom. The conviction of Gish's performance and Sjostrom's subdued lyricism lends weight to the melodrama, the story of a woman whose sexuality is at odds with the community in which she lives. Gish plays Letty, the genteel Easterner who arrives at the desolate Texas homestead of her cousin. Alien to the rough manners of the prairie settlement Letty is obliged to enter into a marriage of convenience. Disastorously, she seeks escape with the romantic stranger she had met on the train. Disintegrating in mind and body she both acts and is acted upon by the elements - sand driven by the incessant wind. The ending was imposed by the studio uneasy about the films uncompromising bleakness."@en
"The Crowd: Episodes in the life of a New York city clerk showing the plight of workaday men and women in urban America. The Wind: Drama of a woman in Texas, battling the relentless and ever-present wind, and her confusion stemming from the affections of two men."@en
""A haunting drama of a woman driven to madness on the Texas prairie. Tormented by the driving, relentless wind, and her moral confusion stemming from the affections of two men who want her, young, innocent Letty fights for her sanity, and her life"--Videodisc sleeve. "Letty, a girl from Virginia, trainbound for her cousin's ranch in the western prairies, meets Roddy, who hints at a marriage proposal. At the ranch, Cora's children and husband become too fond of Letty, and she is forced to leave. With nowhere to go, she decides to accept Roddy's implied invitation to become his wife. When she discovers him already married, she hastily marries Lige, a roughhewn son of the soil at whom she had previously scoffed. While Lige is away for a round-up of wild horses during a particularly fierce windstorm, Roddy forces his way into Lige's home and stays the night with Letty, urging her to go with him in the morning. She refuses, shoots him when he becomes insistent, laboriously drags his body outside, and buries it in the shifting sand. Letty spends a day of terror that approaches madness; but Lige returns, and Letty decides that she no longer wishes to return to Virginia; they will face the wind together"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."@en
"A powerful drama of a woman driven to madness on the Texas prairie. Tormented by the driving, relentless wind - and her moral confusion stemming from the affections of two men who want her - young, innocent Letty fights for her sanity ... and her life."@en
"Drama of a woman in Texas, battling the relentless and ever-present wind, and her confusion stemming from the affections of two men."@en
"A haunting drama of a woman driven to madness on the Texas prairie. Tormented by the driving, relentless wind - and her moral confusion stemming from the affections of two men who want her - young, innocent Letty fights for her sanity ... and her life."@en
"The last silent film starring the great 'silent' actress, Lillian Gish, was a collaboration with the Swedish director, Victor Sjostrom. The conviction of Gish's performance and Sjostrom's subdued lyricism lends weight to the melodrama, the story of a woman whose sexuality is at odds with the community in which she lives. Gish plays Letty, the genteel Easterner who arrives at the desolate Texas homestead of her cousin. Alien to the rough manners of the prairie settlement, Letty is obliged to enter into a marriage of convenience. Disastorously, she seeks escape with a romantic stranger she had met on the train. Disintegrating in mind and body she both acts and is acted upon by the elements - sand driven by incessant wind. The ending was imposed by the studio uneasy about the film's uncompromising bleakness."@en
"Letty, a girl from Virginia, is forced to make her home with her cousin Beverly on a desert farm where the wind blows constantly. On her arrival she meets Roddy, an attractive stranger and two cowboys, Lige and Sourdough. Letty later marries Lige. While Lige is away on a roundup, Roddy arrives and takes advantage of Letty's helplessness and she shoots him. She buries his body in the sand, but the strong wind tugs at the grave and uncovers it, driving her mad. Lige returns and Letty tells him what has happened. They look for the body, but the strong wind has covered it once again. They decide to face the wind together."@en
"Letty, a girl from Virginia heads for Texas to live with her cousin Beverly on a desert farm where the wind blows constantly. On her arrival she meets Roddy, an attractive stranger and two cowboys, Lige and Sourdough. Letty later marries Lige. While Lige is away on a roundup, Roddy arrives and takes advantage of Letty's helplessness and she shoots him. She buries his body in the sand, but the strong wind tugs at the grave and uncovers it, driving her mad. Lige returns and Letty tells him what has happened. They look for the body, but the strong wind has covered it once again. They decide to face the wind together. Includes a commentary by Lillian Gish appearing at the beginning."
"In the Texas prairie, where the wind blows endlessly, a woman tries to maintain her sanity as two men fight for her affection."
"The last silent film starring one of the greatest 'silent' actresses, Lillian Gish, was a collaboration with the Swedish director Victor Sjostrom. The conviction of Gish's performance and Sjostrom's subdued lyricism lends weight to the melodrama, the story of a woman whose sexuality is at odds with the community in which she lives. Gish plays Letty, the genteel Easterner who arrives at the desolate Texas homestead of her cousin. Alien to the rough manners of the prairie settlement Letty is obliged to enter into a marriage of convenience. Disastorously, she seeks escape with a romantic stranger she had met on the train. Disintegrating in mind and body she both acts and is acted upon by the elements - sand driven by incessant wind. The ending was imposed by the studio uneasy about the film's uncompromising bleakness."@en

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