The Fall of Babylon
(1919) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Constance Talmadge [the mountain girl], Elmer Clifton, Tully Marshall [High Priest of Bel], Alfred Paget, Seena Owen, Carl Stockdale, Loyola O’Connor, George Siegmann, Elmo Lincoln, James Curley, Kate Bruce, Howard Scott, Alma Rubens, Ruth Darling, Margaret Mooney, George Fawcett, Mildred Harris, Pauline Starke, Winifred Westover, Ruth St. Denis, Carol Dempster [extra]

D.W. Griffith (Wark Producing Corporation) production; distributed by D.W. Griffith Service. / Scenario by D.W. Griffith, from a screen story by D.W. Griffith. Production supervised by D.W. Griffith. Set design by Frank ‘Huck’ Wortman and Walter L. Hall. Babylon set construction supervised by Frank ‘Huck’ Wortman. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. Presented by D.W. Griffith. / Premiered 21 July 1919 at the George M. Cohan Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / This feature was fashioned from the Babylon segment of Griffith’s Intolerance (1916); lengthened with 1916 outtakes and additional footage shot in 1919 by Griffith.

Drama: Historical.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1258.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Listing updated: 14 November 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1258; Barry-Griffith pp. 28, 50, 51, 60; Bohn-Light p. 59; Card-Seductive pp. 31, 32, 45; Everson-American p. 96; Limbacher-Feature p. 76; Sinyard-Silent p. 139; Smith-Epic p. 116 : ClasIm-226 p. 43; ClasIm-240 p. 44.